Tim Stretton

Biographic Data

ID4983668
NAMETim Stretton
GIVEN NAMESTim
FAMILY NAMEStretton
SIGNATURESTRETTON T
AFFILIATIONSSaint Mary's University
ORCID0000-0003-0264-5980
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • The Madman and the Church Robber

    Open AccessTim StrettonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2024

  • Women, Legal Records, and the Problem of the Lawyer's Hand

    Open AccessTim StrettonARTICLEJournal of British Studies2019Cited by: 5References: 6

    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 di…

  • Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice in Britain, 1300–1700

    Open AccessAmy Shepard, Alexandra Shepard et al.ARTICLEJournal of British Studies2019Cited by: 1References: 4

    This introduction places the articles featured in this special issue of the Journal of British Studies within the context of recent scholarship on late medieval and early modern women and the law. It is designed to highlight the many boundaries that structured women's legal agency in Britain, including the procedural boundaries that filtered their voices through male advisers and officials, the jurisdictional boundaries that shaped litigation str…

  • Women

    Tim StrettonCHAPTERElizabethan World2014

  • Parish Religion

    John Craig, Tim StrettonCHAPTERElizabethan World2014

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  • The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson

    Tim StrettonARTICLEBiography2014

    Reviewed by: The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson: Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England by Jessica L. Malay Tim Stretton (bio) Jessica L. Malay. The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson: Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2014. 176pp. ISBN 978-0804790550, $65.00 The subtitle of Jessica Malay’s stunning new book says it all: this is a shocking account of marital ab…

  • Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700

    Open AccessTim StrettonARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014

    Bronach Kane and Fiona Williamson, eds. Women, Agency and the Law, 1300–1700. The Body, Gender and Culture 15. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. xvi + 210 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-384-2. - Volume 67 Issue 4

  • Written Obligations, Litigation and Neighbourliness, 1580–1680

    Tim StrettonCHAPTERRemaking English Society2013

  • Remaking English Society

    Amy Shepard, John Walter et al.BOOKRemaking English Society2013

  • Married Women and the Law

    Timothy Stretton, Tim Stretton et al.BOOKMarried Women and the Law2013

    Explaining the curious legal doctrine of William Blackstone famously declared that marriage, husband and wife are one person at law. This covering of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of…

  • Press Censorship in Caroline England

    Cyndia Susan Clegg, Tim StrettonARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2012

    Clegg, Cyndia Susan. Press Censorship in Caroline England. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Things Not Easily Believed: Introducing the Early Modern Relation), on Érudit

  • Never Married

    Open AccessTim StrettonARTICLEGender & History2007

  • The Rule of Law, 1603-1660

    Tim Stretton, James S HartARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History2005

    The Rule of Law, 1603–1660: Crowns, Courts and Judges Get access Hart James S.Jr., The Rule of Law, 1603–1660: Crowns, Courts and Judges. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2003. x, 317 pp. $58.20. Tim Stretton Tim Stretton Saint Mary's University, Halifax Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 324–325, https://doi.org/10.2307/30039528 Published: 01 Ju…

  • Married Women and the Law in England since the Eighteenth Century

    Tim StrettonARTICLEL Homme2003

  • Faith Robertson Elliot, Gender, family and society . (Basingstoke

    Open AccessTim StrettonARTICLEContinuity and Change1999

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  • Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England

    Elizabeth Ewan, Tim StrettonARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1999

    Journal Article Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England Get access Stretton Tim, Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xv, 271 pp. $59.95. Elizabeth Ewan Elizabeth Ewan University of Guelph Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 43, Issue 3, July 1999, Pages 336–338, https://doi.org/10.2307/846165 Published: 01 July 1999