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History Renaissance

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England

edited by Andrew Buck, Margaret W. Ferguson & Nancy E. Wright

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2004
Category
Renaissance, Legal History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802087577
    Publish Date
    Jun 2004
    List Price
    $102.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442683600
    Publish Date
    Jun 2004
    List Price
    $99.00

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Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England examines the competing narratives of property told by and about women in the early modern period. Through letters, legal treatises, case law, wills, and works of literature, the contributors explore women's complex roles as subjects and agents in commercial and domestic economies, and as objects shaped by a network of social and legal relationships. By constructing conversations across the disciplinary boundaries of legal and social history, sociology and literary criticism, the collection explores a diverse range of women's property relationships.

Recent research has revealed fissures in our knowledge about women's property relationships within a regime characterized by competing jurisdictions, diverse systems of tenure, and multiple concepts of property. Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period. This interdisciplinary analysis of women and property is written in an accessible manner and will become a valuable resource for scholars and students of Renaissance, Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, early modern social and legal history, and women's studies.

About the authors

A.R. Buck teaches in the Division of Law at Macquarie University.

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Margaret W. Ferguson teaches in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis.

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Nancy E. Wright is the director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Property Rights at the University of Newcastle.

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