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Tag: women and the law

January 16, 2023January 17, 2023 Krista Kesselring

Lawless Women in the Court of Star Chamber

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

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

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Women’s Executions in Early Modern England

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

August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

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

February 17, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

Exits, Entries and the Allure of the Runaway Nun

October 11, 2020February 25, 2023 Krista Kesselring

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

June 30, 2019June 30, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Elizabethan Witch Trials: More Evidence (and a Map)

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

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

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

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