Gender, property and household in provincial English parish government, c. 1540-1660
<p>The political structure of early modern England was, definitively, patriarchal. And yet, women wielded direct authority on the local level in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at a scale not seen in the periods before or after. While historians have long recognised that early modern p...
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2022
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