
Tag: women and the law


When Women Went to Court: Gendered Agency in European Legal Systems, 1300-1800

Women’s Executions in Early Modern England

Doubt, Decency, and the History of English Witchcraft

Divorce and the Two Ladies Powys

Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer: Marriage Breakdown and Women’s Rights in Seventeenth-Century England

Exits, Entries and the Allure of the Runaway Nun

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

Elizabethan Witch Trials: More Evidence (and a Map)

A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England

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