IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 207: Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records, II: Women and the Law

Sponsor:	Department of History, University of Sydney
Organiser:	Sarah Crawford, Department of History, University of Sydney
Moderator/Chair:	Jeremy Goldberg, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Paper 207-a	Reconsidering Marriage and Coverture in English Provincial Courts (Language: English) Teresa Phipps, Department of History, University of Nottingham Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Social History, Women's Studies
Paper 207-b	Infidelity and the Law in Pre-Modern Korea (Language: English) Seokyung Han, Center for Interdisciplinary Study in Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture, State University of New York, Binghamton Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Sexuality, Women's Studies
Paper 207-c	Escaping Forced Marriage in Late Medieval York (Language: English) Sarah Crawford, Department of History, University of Sydney Index terms: Archives and Sources, Gender Studies, Law, Social History
Abstract	Married women appear in court records in different roles; litigant, defendant, witness, and across a broad spectrum of cases; marital, criminal, and economic. What do these court records tell us about the lives of married women? Are laws regarding the participation of women in legal processes upheld? How do women make use of the law or are they used by it? In this session, the papers will investigate the interplay between social and legal expectations for married women and how these expectations could be manipulated in England and Korea.