Legal History Miscellany

Posts on the History of Law, Crime, and Justice

Menu Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Medieval Primary Source Materials in Print
  • Reviews and Notices
  • Primary Sources in Print

Tag: women and the law

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, 2020October 11, 2020 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

Tags

acid attacks adultery alcohol animals archives assault benefit of clergy bondage Chancery clemency coroners coverture crime crime reporting debt divorce drunkenness execution experts forensic medicine forfeiture gaols history of violence homicide images impeachment infidelity inquests Law law and order law and politics law and religion legal history legislation maps marriage medical evidence medical history medicine medieval England murder mutilation newspapers Oxford pardon parliament petty larceny poison police politics proclamations property punishment Reformation revenge Riot rogues sanctuary Scotland slavery Star Chamber theft Transportation Treason trials Victorian crime violence vitriol throwing Wales whipping witchcraft witches women women's agency women and the law

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Follow Legal History Miscellany on WordPress.com

RSS Link

RSS Feed

Archives

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Legal History Miscellany
    • Join 1,435 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Legal History Miscellany
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar