Author: Krista Kesselring
I teach British history at Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS), with a focus on the early modern period. My main current research projects examine the history of divorce and the records of the Court of Star Chamber.
Domestic Violence and Rough Justice in Star Chamber (1612)
A New Year’s Gift and the Power to Pardon
Mary Vezey, Sarah Chapone, and the Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1732-35)
The Laws of Moses…and of England?
Gaol Fever Stories
Can You Steal a Peacock? Animals in Early Modern Law
Disparaging Marriage in Early Modern England
Star Chamber as a Marriage Court
Unsolved Early Modern Murder Mysteries
Elizabethan Witch Trials: More Evidence (and a Map)
Apprehending Early Modern Fugitives
The Very Image of Justice? Star Chamber Records and the Art of Punishment
Slavery and Cartwright’s Case before Somerset
Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers
Star Chamber Stories: Using Criminal Law to Criminal Ends in Early Modern London
Star Chamber Stories: Elizabethan Witchcraft, Sorcery, and a Very Troubled Marriage
Star Chamber Stories: Felons’ Labours
Impeaching the Queen of England (1643/4)
Early Modern Coroners’ Inquests into Deaths in Custody
Good Friday Pardons in England
A Proposal to Enslave Petty Offenders (1621)
Licensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in Reformation England
The Short History of the Infidelity Defence in England
