The Lord of the manor knew it. Even the women themselves in most cases had simply accepted it as the natural order of things. Now,…
It is telling that this figure exists at all because what it suggests is that the society around these women could sense that something had…
Regrating which meant buying goods at market price and reselling them at a higher price in the same market or nearby and engrossing which meant…
A widow who had run a household and contributed to family income through spinning or weaving or ale production owned in a real and practical…

Little Girl Vanished in 1998 — 3 Years Later, Sister Told the Police What She Saw … When deputies asked him directly how long he…
There is the case of Cibil de Fulthorp, whose husband died in exile in 1394. She spent the better part of the next 20 years…
the Huxster and her close cousin, the regrator, a woman who bought goods at the official market price and resold them in smaller quantities in…
What this means in practice is that the surviving record of married women’s wills is almost certainly a severe undercount of the actual willmaking activity…

Little Girl Vanished in 1992 – 12 Years Later, a Whisper in an Elevator Revealed the Truth … I can’t, she said. I can’t walk…
In the storoom, the coins under the floorboards belongs to men. At least that is what the law would have you believe. Because this was…


