Women, agency and the law, 1300-1700 / edited by Bronach Kane and Fiona Williamson.

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.

xvi, 209 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-202) and index.

Introduction : Bronach Karte with Fiona Williamson -- Shaping women's testimony -- Your Oratrice : women's petitions to the late Medieval court of Chancery / Cordelia Beattie -- Echoes, whispers, ventriloquisms : on recovering womens voices from the court of York in the later middle ages / Jeremy Goldberg -- Women, memory and agency in the Medieval English Church courts / Bronach Kane -- Encountering the law -- 'Utterly and untruly he hath deceived me' : women's inheritance in late Medieval England / Rosemary Horrox -- 'She Hym fresshely folowed and pursued' : women and star chamber in early Tudor Wales / Deborah Youngs -- Women and the hue and cry in late Fourteenth-Century Great Yarmouth / Janka Rodziewicz -- Women's voices and women's spaces -- Gender and the control of sacred space in early Modern England / Amanda Fiather -- The Travails of Agnes Beaumont / Bernard Capp -- Parish politics, urban spaces and women's voices in seventeenth-century Norwich / Fiona Williamson -- 'With a Sword Drawne in her hande' : defending the boundaries of household space in seventeenth-century Wales / Nicola Whyte -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.