Women, crime and the courts in early modern England /
[Book]
edited by Jenny Kermode & Garthine Walker.
London :
UCL Press,
1994.
viii, 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations, facsimiles ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index.
Introduction / Garthine Walker & Jenny Kermode -- Language, power, and the law : women's slander litigation in early modern London / Laura Gowing -- "Scolding women cucked or washed" : a crisis in gender relations in early modern England? / Martin Ingram -- Women, theft and the world of stolen goods / Garthrine Walker -- Women, witchcraft and the legal process / Jim Sharpe -- Witchcraft and power in early modern England : the case of Margaret Moore / Malcolm Gaskill -- Negotiating for blood money : war widows and the courts in seventeenth-century England / Geoffrey L. Hudson -- Women, custom and equity in the court of requests / Tim Stretton.
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Crime-- Great Britain-- History.
Female offenders-- Great Britain-- History.
Women-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- Great Britain-- History.