(Source: Springer)
Springer is publishing a new book
on the role played by women in the workings and business of the English
Parliament in the late Middle Ages.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This Palgrave Pivot provides the
first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the
workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages.
Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women’s access to the
highest court of medieval England. Women were active supplicants to the Crown
in Parliament, and sometimes appeared there in person to prosecute cases or make
political demands. It explores the positions of women of varying rank, from
queens to peasants, vis-à-vis this male institution, where they very
occasionally appeared in person but were more usually represented by written
petitions. A full analysis of these petitions and of the official records of
parliament reveals that there were a number of issues on which women
consistently pressed for changes in the law and its administration, and where
the Commons and the Crown either championed or refused to support reform. Such
is the concentration of petitions on the subjects of dower and rape that these
may justifiably be termed ‘women’s issues’ in the medieval Parliament.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
W. Mark Ormrod is
Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York. Specialising in the
politics of later Medieval England, he has authored Political Life in
Medieval England, 1300-1450 (1995) and Edward III (2011).
Most recently, with Bart Lambert and Jonathan Mackman, he has published Immigrant
England, 1300-1550 (2019).
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