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Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland
Inbunden, 2016
2324 kr
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Crime is men’s business, isn’t it? Women are responsible for 10 percent of crime in Europe. Yet, if we look at the Dutch Republic in the early modern period, we find that in the towns of Holland women played a much larger role in crime. In a number of early modern towns about half of the criminals …
Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
Inbunden, 2019
2365 kr
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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, …
Theatre of the Street
Public Violence in Antwerp During the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2019
2365 kr
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In The Theatre of the Street: Public Violence in Antwerp During the First Half of the Twentieth Century Antoon Vrints offers a historical analysis of the meanings and functions of street violence in a modern European city. Commonly perceived as the senseless outcome of social disintegration in …
Prosecuting Women
A Comparative Perspective on Crime and Gender Before the Dutch Criminal Courts, c.1600–1810
Inbunden, 2020
2012 kr
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In the early modern period women played a prominent role in crime. At times they even made up half of all defendants. Female criminality was a typically urban phenomenon. Why do we find so many women before the Dutch criminal courts? In Prosecuting Women Ariadne Schmidt analyses the relation …
Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna
Inbunden, 2020
2311 kr
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Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women’s scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women’s passivity, arguing that women’s crimes were far too common to be viewed as …
Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400–1700)
Inbunden, 2024
2051 kr
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The Southern Low Countries were among Europe’s core regions for the repression of sodomy during the late medieval period. As the first comprehensive study on sodomy in the Southern Low Countries, this book charts the prosecution of sodomy in some of the region’s leading cities, such as Bruges, …
