Runaway wives: husband desertion in medieval England.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Butler, Sara | Copyright information

Scholars of the medieval family would generally agree that the lot of the medieval wife was not an easy one. Medieval husbands held the upper hand in the power relationship, both legally and socially. Although Lawrence Stone's view of married life in the Middle Ages as "brutal and often hostile, with little communication, [and] much wife-beating" has since been called into question, more recent historians have still painted a somewhat unflattering picture. (1) Judith Bennett writes...

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