Crime Gender And Social Order In Early Modern England

Author : Garthine Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139435116
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England written by Garthine Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.

Author : Anthony Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521349321
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Order and Disorder in Early Modern England written by Anthony Fletcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.

Author : Helen Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521858763
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Family in Early Modern England written by Helen Berry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an assessment of the most important research published in the past three decades on the English family.

Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198208863
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany written by Ulinka Rublack and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the crimes of women in early modern Germany, this text draws on court records to examine the lives of shrewd cutpurses, quarrelling artisan wives, and soldiers' concubines.

Author : S. Clark
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230000622
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England written by S. Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clark explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper, in ballads, pamphlets, and plays. It discusses those features of contemporary society which particularly influenced early modern crime reporting, such as attitudes to news, the law and women's rights, and ideas about the responsibility of the community for keeping order. It considers the problems of writing about transgressive women for audiences whose ideal woman was chaste, silent, and obedient.

Author : Jeannette Kamp
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004388443
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main written by Jeannette Kamp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.

Author : James A Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317891767
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750 written by James A Sharpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark on the historical record. This new edition - fully updated throughout - incorporates new thinking on many issues including gender and crime; changes in punishment; and literary perspectives on crime.

Author : Jennifer Kermode
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138997509
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England written by Jennifer Kermode and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jennifer Kermode
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England written by Jennifer Kermode and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Crime, and the Courts in Early Modern England

Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786722917
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England written by Francis Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.