Understanding Medieval Women Through Crime
Gone Medieval
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Is She Single?
At first i thought she's probably single, or maybe a widow, because she just keeps appearing in court on her own. But then the more i looked into it, i found a few cases where she appears with her husband John hallam. And this is really interesting because it complicates these ideas that we have about women. Once they're married, their identity becomes kind of joined up with their husband. So if you're kind of ascribing to that rule of coverture, why is agnes halla appearing in court? It doesn't really quite make sense em.
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