Wives and Their Property in Chaucer's London: Testimony of Hustings Wills
- Author / Editor
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Wives and Their Property in Chaucer's London: Testimony of Hustings Wills
- Published
- Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History ser. 3, vol. 8 (2011): 81-195.
- Description
- Surveys some 5,000 wills available at the Guildhall Court of Hustings, documenting that, even though the practice was formerly prohibited, property was regularly acquired by wives in late medieval London through the deaths of their husbands. Observes that such data are paralleled by literary evidence found in WBP, MerT, and TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde