Structures of Patriarchy

Barbara J. Harris

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Historical Studies of British Isles Medieval Literature and History Medieval and Early Modern Justice

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Abstract The Subordination of Yorkist and early Tudor aristocratic women to their male kin rested on an interlocking series of economic, legal, and political institutions, the most fundamental of which were the common law, with its doctrine of coverture; a primogenital inheritance system reinforced by male entail; and a system of arranged marriages based on the dowry and jointure. Their contemporaries justified these institutions by appealing to divine and natural laws that decreed women’s inferiority and subjection. Together these material and ideological constructs created a regime in which the exclusion of aristocratic women from formal political power and office appeared to be completely natural and was virtually unquestioned.

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