Medieval Single Women by Cordelia Beattie

Semeine also reports that William had successfully brought a case before an ecclesiastical court to have the marriage of Semeine and Isabel annulled, on the grounds that Isabel had already contracted marriage with William. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Download or read book Medieval Single Women written by Cordelia Beattie and published by Oxford University Press.

Isabel, though, was evidently ‘single’ only in the sense that she did not live with her legal husband. Book Synopsis Medieval Single Women by : Cordelia Beattie. He alleged that banns were published in the parish church of the vill of Great Yarmouth and no one raised any objection to their marriage, a statement that supports his contention that the community also thought Isabel was single. Further, ‘this Isabel at the time of the making of the contract of matrimony between her and the same Semeine and for days and years before was living as a single person at Great Yarmouth and was regarded as single ’. This book investigates the uses of the category single woman. Semeine’s defence was that on the day of the alleged charge he considered Isabel to be his legal wife and had done so for more than a year. Cordelia Beattie is a senior lecturer in medieval history at the University of. Goldberg, Urban Identity and the Cordelia Beattie, Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England (Oxford. See Cordelia Beattie, Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 2-5. Cordelia Beattie makes a prominent contribution to the field of single-women studies with a very clear and smart series of arguments concerning the use of the category of single woman in a variety of texts from across late medieval England. As Isabel’s husband, common law gave William the use and control of any property that she had brought to the marriage, and it was perhaps these goods that are being referred to here. court, one in a common law court had their origins in a married woman.

Medieval Single Women by Cordelia Beattie