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  • Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England

    by Caroline Dunn ...
    Ladies-in-Waiting in Medieval England examines female attendants who served queens and aristocratic women during the late medieval period. Using a unique set of primary source based statistics, Caroline Dunn reveals that the lady-in-waiting was far more than a pretty girl sewing in the queen's chamber while seeking to catch the eye of an eligible bachelor. Ladies-in-waiting witnessed major ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • Ethical Issues in Mental Illness

    by Caroline Dunn ...
    Series series Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
    This book is an attempt to address the ethical issues raised by mental illness and its treatment by focusing on the question of autonomy. The mentally ill may be regarded as non-autonomous by virtue of irrationality, which may result in treatment models which deny them a voice. As a counter to this, some have moved to the other extreme and argued that the mentally ill must be regarded as fully ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

    Edited by Caroline Dunn, Elizabeth Carney ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of influence. With an expansive chronological and geographic scope—from ancient to early modern and covering Egypt, Great Britain, ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Stolen Women in Medieval England

    Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100–1500

    by Caroline Dunn ...
    Series Book 87 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    The History of a Medieval Mistress

    by Jeannette Lucraft ...
    Katherine Swynford – sexual temptress or powerful woman at the centre of the medieval court?This book unravels the many myths and legacies of this fascinating woman, to show her in a whole new light. Katherine was sister-in-law to Geoffrey Chaucer and governess to the daughters of Blanche of Lancaster and John of Gaunt. She also became John of Gaunt's mistress – a role that she maintained for 20 ... Read more

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  • The Wealth of Wives

    Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London

    by Barbara A. Hanawalt ...
    London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistribution of goods from the continent made London one of the leading commercial cities of Europe. While capital for these ventures came from a variety of sources, the recirculation of wealth through London women was important in providing both ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Women of the Cousins' War

    The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother

    by Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, Michael Jones ...
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.In her essay on Jacquetta, Philippa Gregory uses original documents, archaeology, and histories of myth ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Medieval Europe

    by Chris Wickham ...
    A spirited history of the changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages: "A dazzling race through a complex millennium."— Publishers WeeklyThe millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Sociology Of Mental Health And Illness

    by Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim ...
    This book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Brief History of the Knights Templar

    by Professor in Medieval History Helen Nicholson ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a full account of the Knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon, to give them their full title, bringing the latest findings to a general audience. Putting many of the myths finally to rest, Nicholson recounts a new history of these storm troopers of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Child Abuse: An Evidence Base For Confident Practice

    by Brian Corby ...
    This book is an accessible knowledge base for the whole area of child abuse and child protection, now fully updated in terms of policy, cases and research. ... Read more

    $45.89 USD