Taking a chiefly quantitative approach to Jewish women's litigation at the Exchequer of the Jews between in the period 1219–81, this article represents the first exploration of Jewish women before the law in medieval England. It contends that, far from enjoying a level of ‘legal sexual equality’ not available to Christian women, Anglo-Jewish women at the Exchequer of the Jews in fact shared many of their experiences of (secular) law and justice with their Christian counterparts. This contention is possible in part because of the greater interest, over the last decade, in pre-modern European women's litigation and the realisation that Christian women of all classes were able to navigate their way around judicial systems in ways that confounded any theoretical legal disadvantages they may have faced. The article variously examines the number of Jewish women litigating at the Exchequer of the Jews, their roles in court and representation in the records, and the types of litigation in which they took part. It demonstrates that if we are ever to seek a holistic view of the operation of legal jurisdictions in medieval England, our knowledge must include the experiences of Anglo-Jewish women.

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衡量她的行为：对 1219-81 年在犹太人国库中的盎格鲁犹太妇女诉讼的定量评估

本文主要对 1219-81 年间在犹太人国库中的犹太妇女诉讼采取定量方法，这是对中世纪英格兰法律面前犹太妇女的首次探索。它争辩说，在犹太人国库中的英裔犹太女性远没有享受到基督徒女性无法享受的“法律上的性别平等”，事实上，她们与基督徒同行分享了她们在（世俗）法律和正义方面的许多经验。这种争论是可能的，部分原因是在过去十年中，人们对前现代欧洲妇女的诉讼产生了更大的兴趣，并且认识到所有阶级的基督教妇女都能够以混淆任何理论上的法律劣势的方式绕过司法系统他们可能面临过。这篇文章从不同角度审视了在犹太人国库进行诉讼的犹太妇女的数量、她们在法庭上的角色和记录中的代表，以及她们参与的诉讼类型。它表明，如果我们要寻求对中世纪英格兰法律管辖权运作的整体看法，我们的知识必须包括盎格鲁犹太妇女的经历。