Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death: Women in Sussex, 1350-1535

by Mavis E. Mate

A leading issue among medieval historians of the 14th-15th centuries is the extent to which women benefited from the shortage of labour and increased availability of land in the years following the Black Death. Mavis Mate believes that it was not the golden age for women so frequently assumed, and draws on material from Sussex archives and on current research to support her argument. A late age at marriage, in the mid twenties, common in urban areas,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851155340
• ISBN13: 9780851155340
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"