Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - Shaping Women's Testimony

1 - Your Oratrice: Women's Petitions to the Late Medieval Court of Chancery

pp 17-30

2 - Echoes, Whispers, Ventriloquisms: On Recovering Women's Voices from the Court of York in the Later Middle Ages

pp 31-42

3 - Women, Memory and Agency in the Medieval English Church Courts

pp 43-62

Part II - Encountering the Law

4 - ‘Utterly and Untruly He Hath Deceived Me’: Women's Inheritance in Late Medieval England

pp 63-72

5 - ‘She Hym Fresshely Folowed and Pursued’: Women and Star Chamber in Early Tudor Wales

pp 73-86

6 - Women and the Hue and Cry in Late Fourteenth-Century Great Yarmouth

pp 87-98

Part III - Women's Voices and Women's Spaces

7 - Gender and the Control of Sacred Space in Early Modern England

pp 99-112

8 - The Travails of Agnes Beaumont

pp 113-124

9 - Parish Politics, Urban Spaces and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Norwich

pp 125-140

10 - ‘With a Sword Drawne in Her Hande’: Defending the Boundaries of Household Space in Seventeenth-Century Wales

pp 141-156

Appendix

pp 157-158

Notes

pp 159-202

Index

pp 203-209