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London Women, the Courts and the ‘Golden Age’ : a Quantitative Analysis of Female Litigants in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

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The London Journal, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Start page: 67

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This paper uses judicial records of the Sheriffs’ Court of London and the royal Court of Common Pleas at Westminster to investigate whether the concept of a later medieval ‘Golden Age’ of female opportunity, as Caroline Barron has posited, is indicated by London’s legal customs, as reflected in quan...

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ISSN: 0305-8034
Published: The London Journal 2012
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