Married Women in Legal Practice

Front matter

Routledge Research in Gender and History

MARRIED WOMEN IN LEGAL PRACTICE

AGENCY AND NORMS IN THE SWEDISH REALM, 1350—1450

Introduction

Married Women and Legal Representation Married Women and Property Management

What Married Women Could and Did Do—A Summary and Some Conclusions

Printed Sources Bibliography Index vii

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Figures

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Map of modern Scandinavia, with outlines of the medieval Swedish realm highlighted.

Total number of charters in DW, by decade of issuing. An overview of the total number of charters in any

of the categories of the five legal transactions,

divided by DW, women as primary agents, and OM. Women as primary agents in the category "Sales, based on DW.

Wives as primary agents in the category ‘Sales,’

based on DW.

Women as primary agents in the category ‘Trades,’ based on DW.

Women as primary agents in the category ‘Donations,’ based on DW.

Women as primary agents in the category ‘Testaments,’ based on DW.

Total number of charters in the category ‘Dividing Inheritance,’ based on DW and OM.

Total number of charters in the category ‘Morning Gifts,’ based on DW.

Women as primary agents in the category ‘Sales,’ according to marital status, based on DW.