The Crimes of Women in Early Modern GermanyClarendon Press, 1999 - 292 sider The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany is a fascinating study of 'deviant' women. It is the first scholarly account of how women were prosecuted for theft, infanticide, and sexual crimes in early modern Germany, and challenges the assumption that women were treated more leniently than men. Ulinka Rublack uses criminal trials to illuminate the social status and conflicts of women living through the Reformation and the Thirty Years War, telling for the first time, the stories of cutpurses, maidservants' dangerous liaisons, and artisans' troubled marriages. She provides a thought-provoking a. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Gossip Silence or Accusation | 16 |
Trial and Punishment | 43 |
Women and Property Crime | 92 |
Sinful Sexualities | 134 |
Infanticide | 163 |
Married Life | 197 |
Incest | 231 |
Conclusion | 255 |
Appendix | 261 |
Bibliography | 264 |
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