The Rights of Medieval Women : Crime and the Issue of Representation
- Author / Editor
- Cannon Christopher.
The Rights of Medieval Women : Crime and the Issue of Representation
- Published
- Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 156-85.
- Description
- Legal records reflect the struggles of medieval women to gain legal (and verbal) representation. A similar struggle is evident in the court case of Lady Meed of Piers Plowman, as well as in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Criseyde's letter in TC 5.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Crime and Social Control.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.