Until about 1970, anyone who wanted to write a comprehensive history of medieval English law as it actually affected women would have found a dearth of published books or articles concerned with specific legal topics relating to women and derived from extensive research in actual court records. ████ ██ █ ███████ ███████████ █████ █████ ███████ ███ ██ █████ ██████████ ██ ███████████ ███ ███ ███ ████████ ████████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ███ ███ ███ ████████ ██ ██████ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ██████ █████ ███
Problem ·Lack of records-based research on how medieval English law affected women
Court records an important resource on real-world impacts of law on women
Implications of problem ·Incomplete knowledge of how medieval English law affected women
Passage Style
Problem-analysis
Single position
22.
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a
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Not supported, the author never indicates that any source is adequate for the needs of a modern legal historian studying medieval law. Although we know that certain sources were what most nineteenth-century historians of medieval law consulted, that doesn’t indicate adequacy for the needs of modern historians.
b
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Not supported. The author never expresses a judgment about which sources she prefers. She never suggests one kind of source is generally better than another. Although there is support for the belief that some sources are more useful for studying certain subjects, this doesn’t extend to a general preference for some sources over others.
c
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Not supported. The author never suggests the sources are not relevant to the history of modern legal institutions and ideas. Although these sources might not be the best for studying how women were affected by law, that doesn’t imply these sources are not relevant to other subjects.
Not supported. The author never expresses a judgment about what is the primary value in these sources. Although these sources might answer some questions concerning how laws were intended to affect women, we don’t know that the author finds primary value in the ability of these sources to answer these questions.
Difficulty
87% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is somewhat easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%130
143
75%155
Analysis
Author’s perspective
Implied
Law
Problem-analysis
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
4%
162
b
3%
157
c
2%
158
d
87%
165
e
3%
161
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