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Tag: Star Chamber

a man being interrogated in prison
April 22, 2025April 22, 2025 Krista Kesselring

The End(s) of a Lawless Court

October 24, 2024November 18, 2024 Krista Kesselring

Joan Coleman and the Trials of Elizabethan Witchcraft

A painting of a stranded whale, 1617.
July 22, 2024July 24, 2024 Krista Kesselring

Royal Fish and Early Modern Tales of Whales

October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 Krista Kesselring

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

A court roll
October 16, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

Legal Records Jamboree: 3. Verdicts

July 20, 2023July 20, 2023 Krista Kesselring

John Cotta: An Early, Failed Forensic Toxicologist?

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

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 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 15, 2019October 15, 2019 legalhistorymiscellany

Perjury, Wager of Law, and Debt in the Elizabethan Star Chamber

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

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 23, 2016February 19, 2021 Krista Kesselring

Licensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in Reformation England

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