Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England
Cordelia Beattie
The single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. Does it denote all unmarried women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life? Or, were the…
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List of Abbreviations
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List of Tables
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Introduction
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Medieval classification schemes
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‘Single woman’ as a category of difference
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1. Classification in Cultural Context
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Clean maids, true wives, and steadfast widows
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Femmes Soles
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Marriage, social change, and the politics of classification
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2. The Single Woman in Penitential Discourse
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Penitential discourse, women, and sexual sin
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Fourteen degrees of active lechery
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Seven states of chastity
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3. The Single Woman in Fiscal Discourse
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The schedule for the 1379 tax and the classification process
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The Bishop’s Lynn poll tax return of 1379
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Widows, daughters, and work
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Thinking with single women
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4. The Single Woman in Guild Texts
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Single sisters and the guild returns of 1388–9
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Maidens and single men: the register of the Guild of the Holy Cross, Stratford-upon-Avon (1406–1535)
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5. ‘Singlewoman’ as a Personal Designation
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Early examples of ‘singlewoman’
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York’s civic records c. 1475–c. 1540
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From the medieval to the early modern
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Conclusion: Cultural Intersections
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Bibliography
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Index
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ISBN: 0199283419
Год издания: 2007
194 стр.
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