Jeremy Goldberg

The Right to Choose: Women, Consent and Marriage in Late Medieval England

Jeremy Goldberg examines three stories of disputed marriages and discusses definitions of consent and how they impinged on a medieval woman’s right to marry when and whom she chose.

Published January 15 2008

Girls Growing Up In Later Medieval England

Teenage pregnancy and street gossip – but also lessons in housekeeping and good husbandry. Jeremy Goldberg draws on contemporary documents to assess the pluses and minuses of entering adulthood as a woman in the late Middle Ages.

Published May 31 1995