The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany |
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| Author:
| Rublack, Ulinka |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-820886-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2001 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $173.59AUD $219.00 |
Book Description:
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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 uses court records to examine the lives of shrewd cutpurses, quarelling artisan wives, and soldiers' concubines, and explores women's experience of communities and courtship, marriage, the family, and the law.
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 uses court records to examine the lives of shrewd cutpurses, quarelling artisan wives, and soldiers' concubines, and explores women's experience of communities and courtship, marriage, the family, and the law.