HASTAC Commons | Sara Margaret Butler | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/sarambutler/activity/ Activity feed for Sara Margaret Butler. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:38 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4d29f07309eca519883dc5faa2febed9 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853082/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:27 +0000 Historians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more]

]]> 0 062733d7f21347afae56af6f962472b7 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853081/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:17 +0000 Historians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more]

]]> 0 68f18d2141042fee256b593877f6a055 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853080/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:16 +0000 Historians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more]

]]> 0 692f3400ca07f86ba8c4a2f56686f8dc Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853079/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:10 +0000 Historians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more]

]]> 0 c64c4cebbba46c065256786595c5b316 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Attitudes to Domestic Violence in the West,” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853035/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:29:54 +0000 A broad survey of how domestic violence cases were handled in theory and practice across medieval Europe.

]]> 0 af000573ff82c0ebc212278be7d9b12b Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853034/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:20:34 +0000 Historians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more]

]]> 0 339f54b44f082390e1cb4800a0862dd3 Sara Margaret Butler's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853033/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:15:33 +0000 0 a1ab0d5c9266bef20cfcbc3f4554ba87 Sara Margaret Butler's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834364/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:42:50 +0000 0 e271fbbfc681124262a62c5963564d92 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England.” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696869/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:18:00 +0000 In the year 1397 in the parish of Tuttington (Norfolk), a woman whose name is lost to history, frantic to rid herself of the evil spirit that possessed her, turned to suicide. She attempted first to hang herself, but her husband discovered her while life remained in her body, cut down the rope, and comforted her. A few weeks later she tried once…[Read more]

]]> 0 e271fbbfc681124262a62c5963564d92 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England.” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696868/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:18:00 +0000 In the year 1397 in the parish of Tuttington (Norfolk), a woman whose name is lost to history, frantic to rid herself of the evil spirit that possessed her, turned to suicide. She attempted first to hang herself, but her husband discovered her while life remained in her body, cut down the rope, and comforted her. A few weeks later she tried once…[Read more]

]]> 0 b71a879e04115ba855d2841058c52a01 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England.” in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696867/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:59 +0000 In the year 1397 in the parish of Tuttington (Norfolk), a woman whose name is lost to history, frantic to rid herself of the evil spirit that possessed her, turned to suicide. She attempted first to hang herself, but her husband discovered her while life remained in her body, cut down the rope, and comforted her. A few weeks later she tried once…[Read more]

]]> 0 375f7bc3bd4f53084f31ce5038caf3f0 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England.” in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696866/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:49 +0000 In the year 1397 in the parish of Tuttington (Norfolk), a woman whose name is lost to history, frantic to rid herself of the evil spirit that possessed her, turned to suicide. She attempted first to hang herself, but her husband discovered her while life remained in her body, cut down the rope, and comforted her. A few weeks later she tried once…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2f9425b228d275b567ce385f65e4af6 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696865/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:48 +0000 In the year 1397 in the parish of Tuttington (Norfolk), a woman whose name is lost to history, frantic to rid herself of the evil spirit that possessed her, turned to suicide. She attempted first to hang herself, but her husband discovered her while life remained in her body, cut down the rope, and comforted her. A few weeks later she tried once…[Read more]

]]> 0 242a06efbdea8bdf0895e60968cfe9d8 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Lies, Damned Lies, and the Life of Saint Lucy: Three Cases of Judicial Separation from the Late Medieval Court of York.” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696864/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:43 +0000 An examination of three cases of judicial separation from the late medieval court of York.

]]> 0 4b309b13779d1ba55891e68a19af8998 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Lies, Damned Lies, and the Life of Saint Lucy: Three Cases of Judicial Separation from the Late Medieval Court of York.” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696863/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:42 +0000 An examination of three cases of judicial separation from the late medieval court of York.

]]> 0 4b309b13779d1ba55891e68a19af8998 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Lies, Damned Lies, and the Life of Saint Lucy: Three Cases of Judicial Separation from the Late Medieval Court of York.” in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696862/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:42 +0000 An examination of three cases of judicial separation from the late medieval court of York.

]]> 0 4ab436fc0adc875c8c6e0fac3090857e Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Lies, Damned Lies, and the Life of Saint Lucy: Three Cases of Judicial Separation from the Late Medieval Court of York.” in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696861/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:32 +0000 An examination of three cases of judicial separation from the late medieval court of York.

]]> 0 82c932053d35c980dec7b8dcd684f3ce Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Lies, Damned Lies, and the Life of Saint Lucy: Three Cases of Judicial Separation from the Late Medieval Court of York.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696860/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:31 +0000 An examination of three cases of judicial separation from the late medieval court of York.

]]> 0 595a21456eacfe1623bced6c953de429 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Spousal Abuse in Fourteenth-century Yorkshire: What can we learn from the Coroners’ Rolls?” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696859/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:26 +0000 Since the publication of Philippe Aries’ Centuries of Childhood in the early 1960’s, historians of the family have been intrigued by the prospect of a history of change in familial sentiment. 1 Aries’ study of attitudes about children from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, based primarily on art and material evidence, demonstrates…[Read more]

]]> 0 08eb1d71dc56108b2742e94226074e02 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Spousal Abuse in Fourteenth-century Yorkshire: What can we learn from the Coroners’ Rolls?” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696858/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:25 +0000 Since the publication of Philippe Aries’ Centuries of Childhood in the early 1960’s, historians of the family have been intrigued by the prospect of a history of change in familial sentiment. 1 Aries’ study of attitudes about children from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, based primarily on art and material evidence, demonstrates…[Read more]

]]> 0 08eb1d71dc56108b2742e94226074e02 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Spousal Abuse in Fourteenth-century Yorkshire: What can we learn from the Coroners’ Rolls?” in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696857/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:25 +0000 Since the publication of Philippe Aries’ Centuries of Childhood in the early 1960’s, historians of the family have been intrigued by the prospect of a history of change in familial sentiment. 1 Aries’ study of attitudes about children from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, based primarily on art and material evidence, demonstrates…[Read more]

]]> 0 85dc19b32a75ee04560a0cb9a0633b1c Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Spousal Abuse in Fourteenth-century Yorkshire: What can we learn from the Coroners’ Rolls?” in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696856/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:16 +0000 Since the publication of Philippe Aries’ Centuries of Childhood in the early 1960’s, historians of the family have been intrigued by the prospect of a history of change in familial sentiment. 1 Aries’ study of attitudes about children from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, based primarily on art and material evidence, demonstrates…[Read more]

]]> 0 16cbd7bdbb95fca9d9945f35370753c9 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Spousal Abuse in Fourteenth-century Yorkshire: What can we learn from the Coroners’ Rolls?” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696855/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:15 +0000 Since the publication of Philippe Aries’ Centuries of Childhood in the early 1960’s, historians of the family have been intrigued by the prospect of a history of change in familial sentiment. 1 Aries’ study of attitudes about children from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, based primarily on art and material evidence, demonstrates…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3a786c47391d2121598d725083b182c Sara Margaret Butler deposited “‘I will never consent to be wedded with you!’: Coerced Marriage in the Courts of Medieval England.” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696854/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:09 +0000 This paper asks us to rethink the boundaries between consent and coercion in medieval England. From gentle persuasion to threats and abuse, coercion was a part of the courtship process. Although late medieval society expected parents to play an active, even heavy-handed, role in matchmaking, the English church recognized the possibility that…[Read more]

]]> 0 e10f5a83780d4fed6b6ee6ad627416a1 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “‘I will never consent to be wedded with you!’: Coerced Marriage in the Courts of Medieval England.” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696853/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:07 +0000 This paper asks us to rethink the boundaries between consent and coercion in medieval England. From gentle persuasion to threats and abuse, coercion was a part of the courtship process. Although late medieval society expected parents to play an active, even heavy-handed, role in matchmaking, the English church recognized the possibility that…[Read more]

]]> 0 e10f5a83780d4fed6b6ee6ad627416a1 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “‘I will never consent to be wedded with you!’: Coerced Marriage in the Courts of Medieval England.” in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696852/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:17:07 +0000 This paper asks us to rethink the boundaries between consent and coercion in medieval England. From gentle persuasion to threats and abuse, coercion was a part of the courtship process. Although late medieval society expected parents to play an active, even heavy-handed, role in matchmaking, the English church recognized the possibility that…[Read more]

]]> 0 6896a9064e86619ea04fcd3a50b23090 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “‘I will never consent to be wedded with you!’: Coerced Marriage in the Courts of Medieval England.” in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696851/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:57 +0000 This paper asks us to rethink the boundaries between consent and coercion in medieval England. From gentle persuasion to threats and abuse, coercion was a part of the courtship process. Although late medieval society expected parents to play an active, even heavy-handed, role in matchmaking, the English church recognized the possibility that…[Read more]

]]> 0 d261274b8d5edd810375083d9f5a7ac3 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “‘I will never consent to be wedded with you!’: Coerced Marriage in the Courts of Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696850/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:56 +0000 This paper asks us to rethink the boundaries between consent and coercion in medieval England. From gentle persuasion to threats and abuse, coercion was a part of the courtship process. Although late medieval society expected parents to play an active, even heavy-handed, role in matchmaking, the English church recognized the possibility that…[Read more]

]]> 0 7219d38ab7a73788cfa9f825223b6d3d Sara Margaret Butler deposited “The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424- 1529.” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696849/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:51 +0000 When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether. Six months before the writing of the petition, the wife of Thomas Hyll, a wire monger of London, approached the petitioner’s husband, begging for ‘‘secour and saufg…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef22857c89306e5e9d7952fb5d4ea9df Sara Margaret Butler deposited “The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424- 1529.” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696848/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:50 +0000 When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether. Six months before the writing of the petition, the wife of Thomas Hyll, a wire monger of London, approached the petitioner’s husband, begging for ‘‘secour and saufg…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef22857c89306e5e9d7952fb5d4ea9df Sara Margaret Butler deposited “The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424- 1529.” in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696847/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:50 +0000 When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether. Six months before the writing of the petition, the wife of Thomas Hyll, a wire monger of London, approached the petitioner’s husband, begging for ‘‘secour and saufg…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea4ad5c8aad8e021d982ed925cd1cbf6 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424- 1529.” in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696846/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:39 +0000 When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether. Six months before the writing of the petition, the wife of Thomas Hyll, a wire monger of London, approached the petitioner’s husband, begging for ‘‘secour and saufg…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c0850f8715a10c9322f3ad90a7788ca Sara Margaret Butler deposited “The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424- 1529.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696845/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:38 +0000 When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether. Six months before the writing of the petition, the wife of Thomas Hyll, a wire monger of London, approached the petitioner’s husband, begging for ‘‘secour and saufg…[Read more]

]]> 0 ade9d931ca925572cf7130e979a9ee29 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century England.” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696844/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:34 +0000 According to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the fi rst trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge assaults of this nature as homicide. The underlying argument is that because abortion by assault is a crime against women, male…[Read more]

]]> 0 4329f88623b797397164ed6c00355d78 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century England.” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696843/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:30 +0000 According to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the fi rst trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge assaults of this nature as homicide. The underlying argument is that because abortion by assault is a crime against women, male…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ec13ffc5f1fd83fda6c30169d9e52f9 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century England.” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696842/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:29 +0000 According to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the fi rst trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge assaults of this nature as homicide. The underlying argument is that because abortion by assault is a crime against women, male…[Read more]

]]> 0 6882f7df021164ca06debb4f5085eca1 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century England.” in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696841/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:20 +0000 According to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the fi rst trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge assaults of this nature as homicide. The underlying argument is that because abortion by assault is a crime against women, male…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8472c549ebc5a3d4ac0f1c3a793f1f3 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696840/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:19 +0000 According to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the fi rst trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge assaults of this nature as homicide. The underlying argument is that because abortion by assault is a crime against women, male…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1e15270f606c094d068ba96eeead3fa Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England.” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696839/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:14 +0000 Sunday, January 23, 1390 was a day that Ralph Peioun of Wotton (Lincs.) and his wife most likely never forgot. On this day, their one-year-old son, Richard, presumably curious and headstrong like most young toddlers his age, made an unfortunate choice of playthings when he picked up a pair of shears and wounded himself in the throat, a fatal…[Read more]

]]> 0 4aef29d69d10fad23380105528379743 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England.” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696838/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:10 +0000 Sunday, January 23, 1390 was a day that Ralph Peioun of Wotton (Lincs.) and his wife most likely never forgot. On this day, their one-year-old son, Richard, presumably curious and headstrong like most young toddlers his age, made an unfortunate choice of playthings when he picked up a pair of shears and wounded himself in the throat, a fatal…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd2bc7a5b72acd047632b7fed3bba1db Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England.” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696837/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:09 +0000 Sunday, January 23, 1390 was a day that Ralph Peioun of Wotton (Lincs.) and his wife most likely never forgot. On this day, their one-year-old son, Richard, presumably curious and headstrong like most young toddlers his age, made an unfortunate choice of playthings when he picked up a pair of shears and wounded himself in the throat, a fatal…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd2bc7a5b72acd047632b7fed3bba1db Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England.” in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696836/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:09 +0000 Sunday, January 23, 1390 was a day that Ralph Peioun of Wotton (Lincs.) and his wife most likely never forgot. On this day, their one-year-old son, Richard, presumably curious and headstrong like most young toddlers his age, made an unfortunate choice of playthings when he picked up a pair of shears and wounded himself in the throat, a fatal…[Read more]

]]> 0 09023f48cfa8e449a861887535b472f8 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696835/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:08 +0000 Sunday, January 23, 1390 was a day that Ralph Peioun of Wotton (Lincs.) and his wife most likely never forgot. On this day, their one-year-old son, Richard, presumably curious and headstrong like most young toddlers his age, made an unfortunate choice of playthings when he picked up a pair of shears and wounded himself in the throat, a fatal…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c859659e347f88d6824776a666d610a Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Local Concerns: Suicide and Jury Behavior in Medieval England.” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696834/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:16:03 +0000 When confronted with cases of self-killing, medieval jurors had to contend with a vast array of often conflicting concerns, from religious and folkloric condemnations of the act of suicide, to fears for the welfare of the family of the dead, and to coping with royal confiscations of a felon’s goods. All of these factors had a profound impact on t…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c6456b4b3975c92598617eaf3356379 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Local Concerns: Suicide and Jury Behavior in Medieval England.” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696833/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:59 +0000 When confronted with cases of self-killing, medieval jurors had to contend with a vast array of often conflicting concerns, from religious and folkloric condemnations of the act of suicide, to fears for the welfare of the family of the dead, and to coping with royal confiscations of a felon’s goods. All of these factors had a profound impact on t…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e112348a22ede099075fe8627143836 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Local Concerns: Suicide and Jury Behavior in Medieval England.” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696832/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:58 +0000 When confronted with cases of self-killing, medieval jurors had to contend with a vast array of often conflicting concerns, from religious and folkloric condemnations of the act of suicide, to fears for the welfare of the family of the dead, and to coping with royal confiscations of a felon’s goods. All of these factors had a profound impact on t…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e112348a22ede099075fe8627143836 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Local Concerns: Suicide and Jury Behavior in Medieval England.” in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696831/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:58 +0000 When confronted with cases of self-killing, medieval jurors had to contend with a vast array of often conflicting concerns, from religious and folkloric condemnations of the act of suicide, to fears for the welfare of the family of the dead, and to coping with royal confiscations of a felon’s goods. All of these factors had a profound impact on t…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bd3209e079cce47cb128ace2c9e56d6 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Local Concerns: Suicide and Jury Behavior in Medieval England.” in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696830/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:56 +0000 When confronted with cases of self-killing, medieval jurors had to contend with a vast array of often conflicting concerns, from religious and folkloric condemnations of the act of suicide, to fears for the welfare of the family of the dead, and to coping with royal confiscations of a felon’s goods. All of these factors had a profound impact on t…[Read more]

]]> 0 68beca01b2838b86ec889bce94e8d25f Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England.” in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696829/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:52 +0000 Scholars of the medieval family would generally agree that the lot of the medieval wife was not an easy one. Medieval husbands held the upper hand in the power relationship, both legally and socially. Although Lawrence Stone’s view of niarried life in the Middle Ages as “brutal and often hostile, with little communication, [and] much wife-beating”…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddaf4bd058e31ceeca1935520455fb53 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England.” in the group Legal history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696828/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:15:51 +0000 Scholars of the medieval family would generally agree that the lot of the medieval wife was not an easy one. Medieval husbands held the upper hand in the power relationship, both legally and socially. Although Lawrence Stone’s view of niarried life in the Middle Ages as “brutal and often hostile, with little communication, [and] much wife-beating”…[Read more]

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