PT107.S2.P4.Q26

PrepTest 107 - Section 2 - Passage 4 - Question 26

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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
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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
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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
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Author's perspective · on real reason for problem
Few legal historians are interested specifically in women's history as it relates to the law
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Implications of problem · Incomplete knowledge of how medieval English law affected women
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26.

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a

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.

4%
b

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.

10%
c

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.

74%
d

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.

4%
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.

7%

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