CONTENTS

Figures and Tables vii

Contributors ix

Introduction: Uncovering Married Women 1

Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank Stevens

1. Inheritance, Property and Marriage in Medieval Norway 11

Lars Ivar Hansen

2.

Medieval Sweden 31

Mia Korpiola

3. When Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland 53

Gillian Kenny

4. Married Women, Crime and the Courts in Late Medieval Wales 71

Lizabeth Johnson

5. Peasant Women, Agency and Status in Mid-Thirleenlh- to Late

Fourteenth-Century England: Some Reconsiderations 91

Miriam Muller

6. London's Married Women, Debt Litigation and Coverture in the

Court of Common Pleas 115

Matthew Frank Stevens

7. Married Women, Contracts and Coverture in Late Medieval England 133

Cordelia Beattie

8. Property, Family and Partnership: Married Women and Legal

Capability in Late Medieval Ghent 155

Shennan Hutton

9. �For His Interest'? Women, Debt and Coverture in Early Modern

Scotland 173

Cathryn Spence

10. The Worth of Married Women in the English Church Courts, c.1550-

1730 191

Alexandra Shepard

11. Married Women, Work and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern

Germany 213

Sheilagh Ogilvie

Index 241