GRE Reading Comprehension: ETS-GRE阅读ETS - T0Z8M4235KMI17167

Which one of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage? A. The traditional view of medieval women as legally excluded from many public offices fails to consider thirteenth-century women in England who were exempted from such restrictions. B. The economic independence of women in thirteenth-century England was primarily determined not by their marital status, but by their status as heirs to their parents' estates. C. The laws and customs of the feudal system in thirteenth-century England enabled some women to exercise a certain amount of power despite their legal exclusion from most public roles. D. During the thirteenth century in England, widows gained greater autonomy and legal rights to their property than they had had in previous centuries. E. Widows in thirteenth-century England were able to acquire and dispose of lands through a number of different legal processes.