ANGLO-IRISH AND GAELIC WOMEN IN IRELAND, C.1170-1540

"Gillian Kenny provides a coherent picture of the lives of women in medieval Ireland through an examination of their marital circumstances. By contrasting the differing lives of Anglo-Irish and Gaelic singlewomen, wives, widows and nuns of late medieval Ireland, the author identifies how their functions and roles in society were affected by the differing rights enjoyed and by the restrictions imposed by their different societies."--BOOK JACKET.