assertions. How far women’s exercise of legal energies were expressions of desperation, how far new extensions of legal rights were premised upon new exclusions and how far the growing volume of rulings in women’s favour reflected not the death of patriarchy but its cultural redistribution remain open to debate. In the meantime, there is much of interest for scholars of legal and gender history to attend to in this work, with particularly fertile analyses in chapter 2 of the ways that early colonial authorities held overlapping roles (including through prerogative courts) and the changing nature of jointures, and in chapter 4 on the role of midwives in the substantiation of paternity and its attendant legal consequences. If ‘When Women Goe to Law, the Devill is Full of Businesse’ (as the title claims in a Jacobean tragicomedy that Moore uses in her opening), one might similarly state that this book does a good job of sketching out women’s increasing facility for going to law in Anglo-America, even if there remain more devils in the details with which to wrestle.

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Elisabeth van Houts，中世纪的婚姻生活，900-1300（牛津：牛津大学出版社，2019 年）。第 viii 页 + 298 + 插图 3。65.00 英镑精装本。

断言。妇女行使法律权力在多大程度上是绝望的表现，法律权利的新扩展在多大程度上是以新的排除为前提的，以及越来越多的有利于妇女的裁决在多大程度上不是反映父权制的死亡，而是其文化再分配仍然有待商榷。与此同时，法律和性别史学者对这项工作有很大的兴趣，在第 2 章中对早期殖民当局扮演重叠角色（包括通过特权法院）和不断变化的性质的方式进行了特别丰富的分析第 4 章关于助产士在证明父亲身份及其相关法律后果方面的作用。如果“当女性诉诸法律，