Women, crime and the courts in early modern England
By: edited by Jenny Kermode & Garthine Walker
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780203993675
Subjects: History; Crime; Female offenders; Legal status, laws; Women
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-218) and index.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Garthine Walker and Jenny Kermode; title: 2. Language, power, and the law : women's slander litigation in early modern London / Laura Gowing; title: 3. "Scolding women cucked or washed" : a crisis in gender relations in early modern England? / Martin Ingram; title: 4. Women, theft and the world of stolen goods / Garthine Walker; title: 5. Women, witchcraft and the legal process / Jim Sharpe; title: 6. Witchcraft and power in early modern England : the case of Margaret Moore / Malcolm Gaskill; title: 7. Negotiating for blood money : war widows and the courts in seventeenth-century England / Geoffrey L. Hudson; title: 8. Women, custom and equity in the court of requests / Tim Stretton.