The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany

ISBN-13: 9780198208860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str.

Ulinka Rublack

Opis

This fascinating study is the first to investigate the crimes of women living in Germany during the time of the Reformation and the Thirty Years War. Ulinka Rublack draws on court records to examine the lives of shrewd cutpurses, quarreling artisan wives, and soldiers' concubines, and explores women's experiences of communities and courtship, marriage, the family, and the law.

Recenzje

The aims of the study - to show how elites used law to enforce their notions of moral and sexual order and how this affected ordinary women - are admirably met.