Emma Cavell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Cavell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavell |
| SIGNATURE | CAVELL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9939-2651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Litigating Jews
This article seeks to map out possibilities for an intensive and wide‐ranging study of Jewish litigation and legal agency within the English king's jurisdiction in the period c. 1190–1290. Despite a small number of studies of Jews and the king's law courts in England in recent years—including my own work on Jewish women litigants at the Exchequer of the Jews—this remains a neglected desideratum of medieval Anglo‐Jewish history. Considering the po…
The Measure of Her Actions
Taking a chiefly quantitative approach to Jewish women's litigation at the Exchequer of the Jews between in the period 1219–81, this article represents the first exploration of Jewish women before the law in medieval England. It contends that, far from enjoying a level of ‘legal sexual equality’ not available to Christian women, Anglo-Jewish women at the Exchequer of the Jews in fact shared many of their experiences of (secular) law and justice w…
Widows, Native Law and the Long Shadow of England in Thirteenth-Century Wales
This article examines complex core–periphery relationships in the medieval British Isles and, for the first time, explores the role of elite women in facilitating and shaping those relationships. It takes the advent of English-style dower in native Wales before Wales’s conquest by Edward I of England (1282) as a case-study, and explores the interrelationship between ‘law’ and ‘custom’ in the native legal culture, in order to shed new light on Wal…
High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire
Philadelphia Ricketts has produced an ambitious, original and welcome study of widows of Yorkshire and Iceland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Built on comparative history as its core methodology (and bolstered by comprehensive appendices and genealogies), this work investigates the property, remarriage, power and identity of high-born widows in two very different societies, and offers a careful appraisal of the sources and of the interp…
Intelligence and intrigue in the March of Wales
This article examines the part played by key baronial wives of the Welsh Marches in the defeat of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1282. Beginning with a single unpublished piece of correspondence between Maud Mortimer of Wigmore and a servant in the Marches in 1274, it not only explores the hidden involvement of women like Maud in the conquest of Wales, but also considers what this reveals about the opportunities available to noblewomen, particularly non…
Medieval Single Women
Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier
This article builds upon the work of the late Professor Sir Rees Davies and other scholars interested in the medieval March of Wales, and draws attention to the place, roles and experiences of the noblewomen in a region usually considered the preserve of the warrior lord. In focusing on the aristocratic widow, for whom records are relatively abundant, it examines the widows’ experience of dower assignment and of estate and castle management on a …
Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier
This article builds upon the work of the late Professor Sir Rees Davies and other scholars interested in the medieval March of Wales, and draws attention to the place, roles and experiences of the noblewomen in a region usually considered the preserve of the warrior lord. In focusing on the aristocratic widow, for whom records are relatively abundant, it examines the widows’ experience of dower assignment and of estate and castle management on a …
Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier
This article builds upon the work of the late Professor Sir Rees Davies and other scholars interested in the medieval March of Wales, and draws attention to the place, roles and experiences of the noblewomen in a region usually considered the preserve of the warrior lord. In focusing on the aristocratic widow, for whom records are relatively abundant, it examines the widows’ experience of dower assignment and of estate and castle management on a …
Medieval Single Women
High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire
Philadelphia Ricketts has produced an ambitious, original and welcome study of widows of Yorkshire and Iceland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Built on comparative history as its core methodology (and bolstered by comprehensive appendices and genealogies), this work investigates the property, remarriage, power and identity of high-born widows in two very different societies, and offers a careful appraisal of the sources and of the interp…
Intelligence and intrigue in the March of Wales
This article examines the part played by key baronial wives of the Welsh Marches in the defeat of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1282. Beginning with a single unpublished piece of correspondence between Maud Mortimer of Wigmore and a servant in the Marches in 1274, it not only explores the hidden involvement of women like Maud in the conquest of Wales, but also considers what this reveals about the opportunities available to noblewomen, particularly non…
Widows, Native Law and the Long Shadow of England in Thirteenth-Century Wales
This article examines complex core–periphery relationships in the medieval British Isles and, for the first time, explores the role of elite women in facilitating and shaping those relationships. It takes the advent of English-style dower in native Wales before Wales’s conquest by Edward I of England (1282) as a case-study, and explores the interrelationship between ‘law’ and ‘custom’ in the native legal culture, in order to shed new light on Wal…
The Measure of Her Actions
Taking a chiefly quantitative approach to Jewish women's litigation at the Exchequer of the Jews between in the period 1219–81, this article represents the first exploration of Jewish women before the law in medieval England. It contends that, far from enjoying a level of ‘legal sexual equality’ not available to Christian women, Anglo-Jewish women at the Exchequer of the Jews in fact shared many of their experiences of (secular) law and justice w…
Litigating Jews
This article seeks to map out possibilities for an intensive and wide‐ranging study of Jewish litigation and legal agency within the English king's jurisdiction in the period c. 1190–1290. Despite a small number of studies of Jews and the king's law courts in England in recent years—including my own work on Jewish women litigants at the Exchequer of the Jews—this remains a neglected desideratum of medieval Anglo‐Jewish history. Considering the po…
History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (3 works)