The crimes of women in early modern Germany
By: Ulinka Rublack.
Series: Oxford studies in social history
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Female offenders -- Germany -- History; Crime -- Germany -- History; Women -- Germany -- Social conditions
Description: "The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany is a fascinating study of 'deviant' women. It is the first scholarly account of how women were prosecuted for theft, infanticide, and sexual crimes in early modern Germany, and challenges the assumption that women were treated more leniently than men.

Ulinka Rublack uses criminal trials to illuminate the social status and conflicts of women living through the Reformation and the Thirty Years War, telling for the first time, the stories of cutpurses, maidservants' dangerous liaisons, and artisans' troubled marriages."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-285) and index.