This title explores how wardship literature in romance may be used in studies of wardship, and how it may complement an understanding of legal history. Wardship

Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women

A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.

The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.

A survey of attitudes to marriage as represented in medieval legal and literary texts. Medieval marriage has been widely discussed, and this book gives a brief