Medieval Single Women by Cordelia Beattie

To this end, it also considers the ambivalent evidence of married women sometimes claiming and sometimes denying femme sole status, of acting as if single and then acting married. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

From a discussion of provocative legal cases, heard before a variety of courts, it concludes that marital status can be seen as a performance that had to be acted out in order to be visible. Cordelia Beattie Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England 1st Edition, Kindle Edition by Cordelia Beattie (Author) Format: Kindle Edition See all formats and editions Kindle 124.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 137.20 2 Used from 101.98 9 New from 109. 122 Posts, 300 Following, 8 Followers Professor of Womens and Gender History, with a focus on Medieval and EarlyModern. Medieval Single Women(1st Edition) The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England by Cordelia Beattie Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2007. Buy Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England by Beattie, Cordelia (ISBN: 9780199283415) from Amazon's Book Store. The article therefore discusses how the canon legal rules regarding marriage formation and dissolution actually blurred some of the differences between the single and the married, both in theory and in practice. Medieval Single Women: Classification in Cultural Context (eR). It also argues that 'the margins of marriage', the grey areas produced by definitions of marriage, are also at the margins of singleness, thus adding the separated and the divorced to the never married and the widowed as those who might be considered as single. Trial of Joan of Arc cont., 118-28, 130-54, 164-67, 182-95. It argues that understanding what marriage meant in a particular society can shed light on what it meant to live as a single person in that society, in this case, the society of fourteenth and fifteenth century England. This article contributes to the debate about how we define the single woman by thinking about what makes someone 'married' as opposed to 'not married'.

Medieval Single Women by Cordelia Beattie