Judith M Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith M Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | BENNETT J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
No Romance without Finance: Courtship in Late Medieval England
Today, we readily understand that medieval marriage was often preceded by complex economic negotiations about dowers, dowries, inheritances, and even the costs of weddings. This article argues that medieval courtship—whether aimed at marriage or not—was also an occasion for negotiation and benefit. Focusing on evidence from late medieval England, it shows that courtship was not solely (or even predominantly) a path to marriage: it was also a past…
Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490-1525
Late medieval Coventry attracted so many in-migrating singlewomen that it might have seemed a city of women - for every ten women, only seven men. Some of these peasants-turned-townswomen supported themselves as labourers, domestic servants or prostitutes, but it was the demand for their industrial labour as spinners of cloth-yarn and cap-yarn that drew most women to the city. Coventry's merchants and masters, who needed spinners' work but deplor…
Married and not: Weston's grown children in 1268–1269
In 1268–1269 Spalding Priory created an inventory of its male serfs in Weston and the whereabouts of their offspring. Historical demographers have long laboured over this unique document, but their efforts have brought more confusion than consensus. Aiming to revive the historical utility of the Weston inventory, this article provides context for the inventory and access to the text itself. It also reorients analysis of the inventory away from a …
Wretched girls, wretched boys and the European Marriage Pattern in England (c. 1250–1350)
Following on from ‘Married and not: Weston's grown children in 1268–1269’, this article places the Lincolnshire village of Weston within a realm-wide context to demonstrate that, as the rural economy stumbled after c. 1250, many young women and men either delayed marriage or could not marry at all. The European Marriage Pattern (late marriage for some and no marriage for others) can be discerned in England long before the socio-economic adjustmen…
Women (and Men) on the Move: Scots in the English North c. 1440
Alien subsidies suggest that many men and few women immigrated to England between 1440 and 1487. This article examines the one exception to this pattern: the large numbers of Scotswomen assessed as aliens in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Northumberland in 1440. It considers why so many women are found in these particular returns, what we can know about them, and how this knowledge might change our histories of women, labor, and mobility in both Sc…
Town and Countryside in the Age of the Black Death: Essays in Honour of John Hatcher , edited by Mark Bailey and Stephen Rigby
Death and the Maiden
The partnership of death and maidenhood—found in many cultures, present as well as past, east as well as west—is examined here in the particular context of late medieval England, when mortality was exceptionally high and maidens unusually numerous. Drawing on a wide range of materials (including saints’ lives, poetry, monumental brasses, and wills), the essay shows how the English imagined maidens who were untamed by manly authority, endowed with…
Two Women and their Monumental Brass, c. 1480
In the late 15th century, a monumental brass was laid in the church at Etchingham (East Sussex) to the memory of two never-married women, Elizabeth Etchingham, who died in 1452, and Agnes Oxenbridge, who died in 1480. This article investigates the possible social meanings of their brass, with a particular eye to Alan Bray's recent interpretations of other funeral monuments dedicated to same-sex couples
Forgetting the Past
Based on arguments developed more fully in the author's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (2006), this article urges historians of women and gender to develop a richer appreciation of the distant past. The article uses data from recent conferences and journals to demonstrate that our field is now overly focused on the modern era, and especially the last century. Then, in the spirit of encouraging further discussion and deb…
History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance of viewing history from a distance and with feminist intent. Bennett argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on rich, plausible, and well-informed history that is alert to the workings of patriarchal power
Writing Fornication: Medieval Leyrwite and Its Historians
Leyrwite was a fine for fornication levied on the bondwomen of many medieval English manors. This essay traces the distinctive chronological history of leyrwite (it flourished especially c . 1250–1350), its regional distribution (leyrwite was levied only in England and only in some regions of England), its socio-economic implications (leyrwite was directed especially at the poor and more at bastardy than fornication) and, most of all, the signifi…
Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800
Despite the significant number of never-married laywomen in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been very limited. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for further investigation.
Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
Women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London-as well as in many towns and villages-were male, not female. Drawing on a wide variety of sources-such as literary and artistic materials, court records, accounts, and administrative orders-Judith Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) slowly left the trade. She tells a story o…
Ale, Beer, And Brewsters In England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women’s work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) gradually lef…
A History of Women in the West. II. Silences of the Middle Ages
Medievalism and Feminism
The Agrarian History of England and Wales. III. 1348-1500
A History of Laxton: England's Last Open-Field Village. J. V. Beckett
Conviviality and Charity in Medieval and Early Modern England
CONVIVIALITY AND CHARITY IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Get access Fudith M. Bennett Fudith M. Bennett University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 134, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 19–41, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/134.1.19 Published: 01 February 1992
The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase
The origins of the Pastons 2. Land: acquisition and defence 3. East Beckham 4. Three marriages 5. Relations: the Garneys and the Berneys 6. The deathbed of William Paston and its consequences 7. Sir John Fastolf and John Paston Conclusion Index
Misogyny, Popular Culture, and Women's Work
Journal Article Misogyny, Popular Culture, and Women's Work Get access Judith M. Bennett Judith M. Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 166–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.166 Published: 01 March 1991
A General View of the Rural Economy of England, 1538-1840
Comment on Tilly: Who Asks the Questions for Women's History?
Comment on Tilly: Who Asks the Questions for Women’s History?
In her complex and subtle paper, Louise Tilly raises a host of intriguing, debatable issues. She tells us, pace Joan Scott, that women’s history has “arrived” in terms of both institotionaliza-tion within the academy and development into a separate historical specialty. She tells us that we must strive towards a women’s history that is not only descriptive (seeing the task “of retrieving women’s lives and achievements ... as sufficient unto thems…
Feminism and History
Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-West Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties
1. The idea of a village 2. Elmdon families and the core 3. Elmdon as a community 4. Employment 5. Where and how one lives 6. Help and dependancy: kinship in practice 7. Ideas about relatedness 8. Marriage and the significance of outsiders 9. The real village
Wretched girls, wretched boys and the European Marriage Pattern in England (c. 1250–1350)
Following on from ‘Married and not: Weston's grown children in 1268–1269’, this article places the Lincolnshire village of Weston within a realm-wide context to demonstrate that, as the rural economy stumbled after c. 1250, many young women and men either delayed marriage or could not marry at all. The European Marriage Pattern (late marriage for some and no marriage for others) can be discerned in England long before the socio-economic adjustmen…
Spouses, Siblings and Surnames: Reconstructing Families From Medieval Village Court Rolls
Advocates of the “new social history” have buttressed their efforts to recreate the past lives of ordinary people with concepts, models, and quantitative methods taken from the social sciences. These new approaches have allowed scholars to extract vivid and dynamic reconstructions of past human experiences from the dry folios of civil and ecclesiastical registers. Their successes, as exemplified by the many publications of the Cambridge Group for…
Medievalism and Feminism
The Agrarian History of England and Wales. III. 1348-1500
Misogyny, Popular Culture, and Women's Work
Journal Article Misogyny, Popular Culture, and Women's Work Get access Judith M. Bennett Judith M. Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 166–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.166 Published: 01 March 1991
History That Stands Still: Women's Work in the European Past
Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages: Fifty Years after Marian K. Dale
Women (and Men) on the Move: Scots in the English North c. 1440
Alien subsidies suggest that many men and few women immigrated to England between 1440 and 1487. This article examines the one exception to this pattern: the large numbers of Scotswomen assessed as aliens in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Northumberland in 1440. It considers why so many women are found in these particular returns, what we can know about them, and how this knowledge might change our histories of women, labor, and mobility in both Sc…
Writing Fornication: Medieval Leyrwite and Its Historians
Leyrwite was a fine for fornication levied on the bondwomen of many medieval English manors. This essay traces the distinctive chronological history of leyrwite (it flourished especially c . 1250–1350), its regional distribution (leyrwite was levied only in England and only in some regions of England), its socio-economic implications (leyrwite was directed especially at the poor and more at bastardy than fornication) and, most of all, the signifi…
Death and the Maiden
The partnership of death and maidenhood—found in many cultures, present as well as past, east as well as west—is examined here in the particular context of late medieval England, when mortality was exceptionally high and maidens unusually numerous. Drawing on a wide range of materials (including saints’ lives, poetry, monumental brasses, and wills), the essay shows how the English imagined maidens who were untamed by manly authority, endowed with…
Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
Conviviality and Charity in Medieval and Early Modern England
CONVIVIALITY AND CHARITY IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Get access Fudith M. Bennett Fudith M. Bennett University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 134, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 19–41, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/134.1.19 Published: 01 February 1992
The Tie that Binds: Peasant Marriages and Families in Late Medieval England
The Tie that Binds: Peasant Marriages and Families in Late Medieval England On the last day of May 13 19, Henry Kroyl senior attended his manorial court at Brigstock, Northamptonshire, and transferred a semi-virgate of land to his son Henry Kroyl junior and his son's intended wife, Agnes, the daughter of Robert Penifader. At the same session, the younger Kroyl endowed his bride with a small house, an adjoining yard, and six rods of land. Because …
Married and not: Weston's grown children in 1268–1269
In 1268–1269 Spalding Priory created an inventory of its male serfs in Weston and the whereabouts of their offspring. Historical demographers have long laboured over this unique document, but their efforts have brought more confusion than consensus. Aiming to revive the historical utility of the Weston inventory, this article provides context for the inventory and access to the text itself. It also reorients analysis of the inventory away from a …
A History of Women in the West. II. Silences of the Middle Ages
Spouses, Siblings and Surnames: Reconstructing Families From Medieval Village Court Rolls
Advocates of the “new social history” have buttressed their efforts to recreate the past lives of ordinary people with concepts, models, and quantitative methods taken from the social sciences. These new approaches have allowed scholars to extract vivid and dynamic reconstructions of past human experiences from the dry folios of civil and ecclesiastical registers. Their successes, as exemplified by the many publications of the Cambridge Group for…
Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-West Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties
1. The idea of a village 2. Elmdon families and the core 3. Elmdon as a community 4. Employment 5. Where and how one lives 6. Help and dependancy: kinship in practice 7. Ideas about relatedness 8. Marriage and the significance of outsiders 9. The real village
The Tie that Binds: Peasant Marriages and Families in Late Medieval England
The Tie that Binds: Peasant Marriages and Families in Late Medieval England On the last day of May 13 19, Henry Kroyl senior attended his manorial court at Brigstock, Northamptonshire, and transferred a semi-virgate of land to his son Henry Kroyl junior and his son's intended wife, Agnes, the daughter of Robert Penifader. At the same session, the younger Kroyl endowed his bride with a small house, an adjoining yard, and six rods of land. Because …
History That Stands Still: Women's Work in the European Past
Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock before the Plague
Comment on Tilly: Who Asks the Questions for Women's History?
Comment on Tilly: Who Asks the Questions for Women’s History?
In her complex and subtle paper, Louise Tilly raises a host of intriguing, debatable issues. She tells us, pace Joan Scott, that women’s history has “arrived” in terms of both institotionaliza-tion within the academy and development into a separate historical specialty. She tells us that we must strive towards a women’s history that is not only descriptive (seeing the task “of retrieving women’s lives and achievements ... as sufficient unto thems…
Feminism and History
Women in Medieval History and Historiography . Susan Mosher Stuard
Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages . Frances Gies , Joseph Gies
Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages: Fifty Years after Marian K. Dale
Misogyny, Popular Culture, and Women's Work
Journal Article Misogyny, Popular Culture, and Women's Work Get access Judith M. Bennett Judith M. Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 166–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.166 Published: 01 March 1991
A General View of the Rural Economy of England, 1538-1840
A History of Laxton: England's Last Open-Field Village. J. V. Beckett
Conviviality and Charity in Medieval and Early Modern England
CONVIVIALITY AND CHARITY IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Get access Fudith M. Bennett Fudith M. Bennett University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 134, Issue 1, February 1992, Pages 19–41, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/134.1.19 Published: 01 February 1992
The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase
The origins of the Pastons 2. Land: acquisition and defence 3. East Beckham 4. Three marriages 5. Relations: the Garneys and the Berneys 6. The deathbed of William Paston and its consequences 7. Sir John Fastolf and John Paston Conclusion Index
Medievalism and Feminism
The Agrarian History of England and Wales. III. 1348-1500
A History of Women in the West. II. Silences of the Middle Ages
Ale, Beer, And Brewsters In England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women’s work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) gradually lef…
Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
Women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London-as well as in many towns and villages-were male, not female. Drawing on a wide variety of sources-such as literary and artistic materials, court records, accounts, and administrative orders-Judith Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) slowly left the trade. She tells a story o…
Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800
Despite the significant number of never-married laywomen in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been very limited. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for further investigation.
Writing Fornication: Medieval Leyrwite and Its Historians
Leyrwite was a fine for fornication levied on the bondwomen of many medieval English manors. This essay traces the distinctive chronological history of leyrwite (it flourished especially c . 1250–1350), its regional distribution (leyrwite was levied only in England and only in some regions of England), its socio-economic implications (leyrwite was directed especially at the poor and more at bastardy than fornication) and, most of all, the signifi…
History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance of viewing history from a distance and with feminist intent. Bennett argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on rich, plausible, and well-informed history that is alert to the workings of patriarchal power
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