October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 Krista Kesselring

Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details

July 14, 2025July 14, 2025 Krista Kesselring

Arresting Developments

April 22, 2025April 22, 2025 Krista Kesselring

The End(s) of a Lawless Court

January 6, 2025November 17, 2025 Krista Kesselring

Cruel Mercy? Coronation Pardons, Clemency, and Constraints

October 24, 2024November 18, 2024 Krista Kesselring

Joan Coleman and the Trials of Elizabethan Witchcraft

July 22, 2024July 24, 2024 Krista Kesselring

Royal Fish and Early Modern Tales of Whales

April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Krista Kesselring

‘Unlawful Love’ and the 1604 Witchcraft Act

January 12, 2024January 12, 2024 Krista Kesselring

Elizabethan England’s First Witches

October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 Krista Kesselring

Conjuring and Counterfeits in the Court of Star Chamber (1605)

July 20, 2023July 20, 2023 Krista Kesselring

John Cotta: An Early, Failed Forensic Toxicologist?

April 24, 2023April 26, 2023 Krista Kesselring

‘Foul Facts’ and the ‘Pretended Marriage’ of Jane Puckering (1649)

January 16, 2023January 17, 2023 Krista Kesselring

Lawless Women in the Court of Star Chamber

October 10, 2022June 2, 2023 Krista Kesselring

Mystic Fictions and Lawless Fantasies at the End of the First Elizabethan Age

July 26, 2022July 27, 2022 Krista Kesselring

Doubt, Decency, and the History of English Witchcraft

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 Krista Kesselring

Divorce and the Two Ladies Powys

January 3, 2022May 24, 2023 Krista Kesselring

Should ‘Witches’ Receive Posthumous Pardons?

October 10, 2021October 10, 2021 Krista Kesselring

The Court of Star Chamber’s Record(s) and Reports

July 12, 2021December 24, 2024 Krista Kesselring

Justice and (Mis)Fortune in the Wake of Wyatt’s Revolt

April 20, 2021 Krista Kesselring

Domestic Violence and Rough Justice in Star Chamber (1612)

January 1, 2021January 2, 2021 Krista Kesselring

A New Year’s Gift and the Power to Pardon

October 11, 2020February 25, 2023 Krista Kesselring

Mary Vezey, Sarah Chapone, and the Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1732-35)

July 6, 2020July 11, 2020 Krista Kesselring

The Laws of Moses…and of England?

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 Krista Kesselring

Gaol Fever Stories

April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 Krista Kesselring

Can You Steal a Peacock? Animals in Early Modern Law

January 6, 2020April 14, 2020 Krista Kesselring

Disparaging Marriage in Early Modern England

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber as a Marriage Court

October 10, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Unsolved Early Modern Murder Mysteries

June 30, 2019November 15, 2023 Krista Kesselring

Elizabethan Witch Trials: More Evidence (and a Map)

April 2, 2019October 11, 2022 Krista Kesselring

Apprehending Early Modern Fugitives

January 11, 2019May 1, 2019 Krista Kesselring

The Very Image of Justice? Star Chamber Records and the Art of Punishment

October 10, 2018February 3, 2022 Krista Kesselring

Slavery and Cartwright’s Case before Somerset

July 2, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers

April 5, 2018June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber Stories: Using Criminal Law to Criminal Ends in Early Modern London

February 14, 2018July 2, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber Stories: Elizabethan Witchcraft, Sorcery, and a Very Troubled Marriage

January 2, 2018January 31, 2022 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber Stories: Felons’ Labours

October 9, 2017October 10, 2017 Krista Kesselring

Impeaching the Queen of England (1643/4)

July 9, 2017July 9, 2017 Krista Kesselring

Early Modern Coroners’ Inquests into Deaths in Custody

April 14, 2017December 15, 2020 Krista Kesselring

Good Friday Pardons in England

January 10, 2017July 1, 2018 Krista Kesselring

A Proposal to Enslave Petty Offenders (1621)

October 23, 2016February 19, 2021 Krista Kesselring

Licensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in Reformation England

August 8, 2016June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

The Short History of the Infidelity Defence in England

July 24, 2016July 31, 2016 Krista Kesselring

Mrs. Bourne’s Case for a Divorce (1582)