Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France
These days when chivalry is everywhere on the decline, and no one dares to tourney anymore, and all knights are cowards, women are all the more courageous in battle.’
The Emergence of the Medieval Family
By in large, the consensus is now that there was nothing linear, nothing coherent or historically invariant about the emergences and maturation of the medieval family. It is a wild, chaotic, and often difficult story to follow.
Providers and Educators: The Theory and Practice of Fatherhood in Late Medieval Basel, 1475-1529
Using Basel as a case-study reveals important connections between the various roles that fathers played. Two roles stand out: father as provider and father as educator.
Coming of Age and the Family In Medieval England
When and how did children become adults in medieval society?
The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424–1529
When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether.
Domestic violence in late-medieval Bologna
The aim of this paper is to suggest that married life in Renaissance Italy was much more violent than the current historiography allows.
Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England
Scholars of the medieval family would agree that the lot of the medieval wife was not an easy one.