Medieval Single Women —— The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England

----- 中世纪单身妇女：英国中世纪晚期社会分层政治学

ISBN: 9780199283415 出版年：2008 页码：194 Beattie, Cordelia Oxford University Press

INTRODUCTION Medieval classification schemes Single woman as a category of difference 1. Classification in Cultural Context Clean maids, true wives, and steadfast widows Femmes soles Marriage, social change, and the politics of classification 2. The Single Woman in a Penitential Discourse Penitential discourse, women, and sexual sin Fourteen degrees of active lechery Seven states of chastity 3. The Single Woman in a Fiscal Discourse The schedule for the 1379 tax and the classification process The Bishop's Lynn poll tax return of 1379 Widows, daughters, and work Thinking with single women 4. The Single Woman in Guild Texts Single sisters and the guild returns of 1388-9 Maidens and single men: the register of the guild of the Holy Cross, Stratford-upon-Avon (1406-1535) 5. 'Singlewoman' as a Personal Designation Early examples of 'singlewoman' York's civic records c.1475-c.1540 From the medieval to the early modern CONCLUSION: CULTURAL INTERSECTIONS