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Item A translation and study of the lex gundobada of Burgundian law code(1945) Drew, Katherine FischerItem 'And so, enquire the difference': Gender, land, and social change in twelfth and thirteenth century England, a study of maritagium and fee tail(1992) Phillips, Ginger Jaye; Drew, Katherine FischerThe maritagium and the gift in tail were conditional gifts by which land from the patrimony might be provided to daughters and younger sons while ensuring that when such cadet branches failed the land would return to the central inheritance. The coalescence of the common law around coherent principles and the legislation of Edward I on land conveyance resulted in the demise of the maritagium as a land conveyance form and its replacement by the gift in tail. Also, attitudes about the place of women in the family and marriage and the economic changes of the thirteenth century, which encouraged the development of a flexible strategy between demesne and rented lands created a land sales market, caused the practice of granting marriage portions in land to daughters to be replaced by monetary and chattel gifts, while no such change was made in the provision for younger sons.Item Class Distinction in Eighth Century Italy(Rice University, 1952-10) Drew, Katherine Fischer; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item English women at law: Actions in the King's Courts of Justice, 1194-1222(1989) Orr, Patricia Ruth McClain; Drew, Katherine FischerWomen in the medieval English law courts have too often been regarded as passive objects of legal restrictions. Their true position in the courts is best revealed by their own actions as seen in the plea rolls, the records of proceedings in the royal courts. A study of only one form of legal action gives a limited view of women's prospects; this study explores both civil and criminal actions in order to determine the true extent both of the restrictions on women and the accomplishments they were able to make. In the civil law, actions of right highlight the additional restrictions placed on women by the distinctive patterns of sharing by which women held land, as well as the pervasive interest of males in women's landholding. The widow's actions of dower, however, strongly favored her by removing some of the defendant's advantages of delay and choice of proof; the result was that widows won over seventy per cent of the cases they brought to a conclusion. Even here, however, there was a small but growing male presence. In the criminal law, women who complained of rape, though they fared most poorly of all women at law, were only slightly worse off than were male victims of wounding, the only other non-fatal crime against the person, and were active in restoring any loss to their marriageability the rape might have caused. Women who brought other criminal charges, on the other hand, found the court so sympathetic that it overrode its own stated principles to aid them. Though more subject to more restrictions than has been realized, women were capable of more activity on their own behalf than has previously been imagined. There were women who overcame all the obstacles the law could place in their way; in some areas women were favored by the court in unexpected ways; and throughout the courts women were using the system to win from it more than, on the face of things, the system was ever prepared to grant them.Item Erchempert's "History of the Lombards of Benevento": A translation and study of its place in the chronicle tradition(1995) Ferry, Joan Rowe; Drew, Katherine FischerErchempert, a ninth-century Lombard monk attached to the monastery of Monte Cassino in Southern Italy, wrote the History of the Lombards of Benevento around 889, a history intended to contrast with Paul the Deacon's earlier History of the Lombards by including the Carolingian conquest of the Lombard kingdom in 774 and by showing Lombard failings rather than achievements through narrating the decline of Lombard rulership in the South, which had flourished for three centuries in the Lombard duchy (later principality) of Benevento. Three known aspects of Erchempert himself--as Lombard, monk, and chronicler--connect him to his society and provide a basis for examining his History. As a Lombard, his primary concern is loss of unified rule at Benevento following civil war and splitting of the principality into three more or less autonomous rulerships at Benevento, Salerno, and Capua, a division which weakens the Lombards' ability to resist the competing claims of Carolingian and Byzantine rulers and the attacks of Islamic invaders. As a monk, Erchempert is present during events which occur following Monte Cassino's destruction by Muslims in 883, when the monks are exiled to Teano and Capua and the abbey suffers loss of its property. As a chronicler and known grammaticus, Erchempert is an evident participant in the widespread system of monastic education; he later applies elements of this education to the writing of his History, which falls within the Christian chronicle tradition. A translation of Erchempert's History from Latin into English is included in this study.Item Index to Rice Institute Pamphlet, Vols. 1-46(Rice University, 1961) Drew, Katherine Fischer; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.This index includes a cumulative table of contents, an author index and a subject index. It covers volumes 1-46, although to date only issues 1-33 are available online. Consequently, the index information for volumes 34-46 will need to be used with the print version of the Pamphlet until the online version is available.Item John of Biclar and his "Chronicle" (Spain)(1990) Ferry, Joan Rowe; Drew, Katherine FischerJohn of Biclar, a Gothic abbot (later bishop) in sixth-century Spain, wrote a chronicle in Latin for the years A.D. 567 to 590 in the tradition of Christian chronicles begun by Eusebius of Caesarea. He records a period of political consolidation of the Spanish peninsula under the Arian Visigothic king, Leovigild, as well as events during the reigns of the contemporary Roman emperors. John's accomplishment is unusual for a Goth at this time, as is his education in Greek and Latin, received during a stay of seventeen years in Constantinople. John's Chronicle reflects ideas from his predecessors (Victor of Tunnuna and Prosper of Aquitaine) as well as Byzantine and Gothic influences. An English translation of the Chronicle is included in this study.Item Land Tenure and Social Status in Medieval Italy as Demonstrated by the Cartulary of Farfa(Rice University, 1972-10) Drew, Katherine Fischer; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item Legal Materials as a Source for Early Medieval Social History(Rice University, 1974-10) Drew, Katherine Fischer; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item Notes on Lombard Institutions/ Lombard Laws and Anglo-Saxon Dooms(Rice University, 1956-07) Drew, Katherine Fischer; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item Table of Contents for the Rice University Studies, Volume sixty, No. 4, Fall 1974: Medieval and Other Studies, In Honor of Floyd Seyward Lear(Rice University, 1974-10) Drew, Katherine Fischer; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item The status of women in Roman and Frankish law(1990) Bradley, Susan Paige; Drew, Katherine FischerUnder sixth century Roman law (Corpus Juris Civilis) and Frankish law (Pactus Legis Salicae), women, while lacking full juridical equality with men, nevertheless possessed many legal rights and freedoms. While similarities existed between the legal standings of women in both worlds, a fundamental difference underlay the laws and legal systems. Over centuries, the Roman legal system evolved from dependence on family for justice to dependence on the state. The presence of a relatively strong and stable Roman government, legal system, and policing force gradually decreased Roman women's legal dependence on their families and weakened the legal control of male agnates and husbands on Roman women's lives, creating a system which gave women legal recourse against kin (paterfamilias excepted). Frankish law was more dependent on family and kin for enforcement; hence, Frankish women, lacking legal recourse against family, were subject to greater legal control by male relatives.