Women, Legal Records, and the Problem of the Lawyer's Hand
Abstract
Court records provide invaluable evidence of the existence of laws and notional rights affecting women and how these were (or were not) enforced and exercised. Many documents provide tantalizing glimpses of female thinking and echoes of female voices, but these remain elusive because of the influence of the lawyers, scribes, and officials who helped shape and record them. This article examines the multiple difficulties that researchers face in...
Paper Details
Title
Women, Legal Records, and the Problem of the Lawyer's Hand
Published Date
Oct 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
58
Issue
4
Pages
684 - 700
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