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Female Institutions and Collectives as Petitioners in Parliament,d so. An important category in this respect comprises petitions submitted by houses of nuns. Sometimes, nuns tried to petition as individuals, but since the Crown did not recognise religious as having individual identities, they could only do so successfully as corporate bodies, making their supplic

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,Women’s Issues in Parliament: Dower,r Middle Ages. Custom and common law upheld the right of the widow to one-third of her husband’s landed possessions after his death. A significant proportion of petitions made in Parliament on the subject of dower complained about the thwarting of widows’ rights by third parties and/or royal officia

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Women, Parliament and the Public Sphere,n were explicitly recognised as active players: in the world of work, and in the public finances. In spite of the fact that women were a more important element in the workforce after the Black Death, Parliament preserved and enshrined the accustomed distinction between men’s (higher) wages and women

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Book 2020ment 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 t

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Women on Trial in Parliament,reason trial in Parliament but as a case of sorcery heard before an ecclesiastical court. Parliament was clearly uneasy about this, and secured a statute confirming that the wives of peers should, like their husbands, be tried before the Lords on charges of high crimes.

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