Self-study
P1
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
Contrast ·
court records against other research sources
Other sources (treatises, commentaries, statutes) show how the law was intended or believed to affect women, but do not show actual outcomes
Possible solution ·
Quantitative studies of court cases
Reinforce problem: few such studies exist
P2
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Reason for problem ·
Large number of lengthy, untranslated records in Latin and old French
Author's perspective ·
on real reason for problem
Few legal historians are interested specifically in women's history as it relates to the law
Implications of problem ·
Incomplete knowledge of how medieval English law affected women
Passage Style
Problem-analysis
Single position
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linguistic studies of ████████████ ██████ ███ █████ ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ███████ ███ ███████ █████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████
This is not a description of the quantitative studies that are relevant to understanding how women were actually affected by medieval laws.
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the editing and ███████████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████ ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ██████████ ███ ████ ██ █████ ███ █████ ██████████
This is not a description of the quantitative studies that are relevant to understanding how women were actually affected by medieval laws.
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quantitative studies of █████ ███████ ██ ████████ █████ █████ ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ████████ ███ ██████ ███████ ██ ███ ██ ████████ ███████ █████
This is a description of the quantitative studies at the end of P1. These studies are the scholarship relevant to understanding how women were actually affected by medieval laws.
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comparative studies of ████████ █████████ ██████████ ███ ████████████ ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ████████ ███ █████ ███ ██████████ ██ ████████ ███████████
This is not a description of the quantitative studies that are relevant to understanding how women were actually affected by medieval laws.
e
reviews of the ████████ █████████ ██████████ ██████████ █████ ███ ████████ ███ ██████████ ██ ██████████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ █ █████████████ ███████ ██ ████████ ███ ██ ██ ███████ ██ █████
This is not a description of the quantitative studies that are relevant to understanding how women were actually affected by medieval laws.