Semeine also reports that William had successfully brought a case before an ecclesiastical court to have the marriage of Semeine and Isabel annulled, on the grounds that Isabel had already contracted marriage with William. In some medieval contexts, as Cordelia Beattie has observed, the term single women, in fact, included all women without husbands. Isabel, though, was evidently ‘single’ only in the sense that she did not live with her legal husband. He alleged that banns were published in the parish church of the vill of Great Yarmouth and no one raised any objection to their marriage, a statement that supports his contention that the community also thought Isabel was single. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Download or read book Medieval Single Women written by Cordelia Beattie and published by Oxford University Press. Further, ‘this Isabel at the time of the making of the contract of matrimony between her and the same Semeine and for days and years before was living as a single person at Great Yarmouth and was regarded as single ’. Book Synopsis Medieval Single Women by : Cordelia Beattie. At the time I was finishing my PhD on medieval single women and so the first part was quite. Semeine’s defence was that on the day of the alleged charge he considered Isabel to be his legal wife and had done so for more than a year. Investigates the category 'single women' in late medieval England. Blog article published by Cordelia Beattie on 1 March 2023. As Isabel’s husband, common law gave William the use and control of any property that she had brought to the marriage, and it was perhaps these goods that are being referred to here.
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