Beggars, Vagrants and Romanies : Repression and Persecution in Portuguese Society (14th–18th Centuries)
Beggars, Vagrants and Romanies : Repression and Persecution in Portuguese Society (14th–18th Centuries) Abreu, Laurinda Hygiea Internationalis : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History…
An Oppressive Silence: The Evolution of the Raped Woman in Medieval France and England
An Oppressive Silence: The Evolution of the Raped Woman in Medieval France and England By Zoë Eckman Published on Medievalists.net (2011) Introduction: Rape…
Medieval Crime and Punishment
Medieval Crime and Punishment deals with how criminal behavior was dealt with in the Middle Ages. All medieval societies had developed laws to…
Telling tales in Angevin courts
Telling tales in Angevin courts By Daniel Lord Smail French Historical Studies, Vol. 20:2 (1997) Introduction: The archives of Angevin Marseille, from the…
The English Law of Treason in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
The English Law of Treason in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur Muckerheide, Ryan Arthuriana 20.4 (2010) Abstract Malory’s depictions of treason, especially in the…
Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England
According to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the first trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge assaults of this nature as homicide.
A Case of Indifference? Child Murder in Later Medieval England
Infanticide was a felony in the Middle Ages and neither jurors nor royal officials treated child murder with indifference. Nevertheless, it is clear that both gender and marital status guided the courts in their decisions throughout the legal process in terms of indicting, prosecuting, and sentencing defendants in cases of child murder.
Crime, Justice and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Times : Thirty Years of Crime and Criminal Justice History
This article, prepared as a tribute to H.A. Diederiks, sketches a panorama of the research and writing of the history of crime in Europe since the 1960s. I
Women and Crime in Later Mediaeval England: An Examination of the Evidence of the Courts of Gaol Delivery, 1388 to 1409
Women and Crime in Later Mediaeval England: An Examination of the Evidence of the Courts of Gaol Delivery, 1388 to 1409 Garay, Kathleen…
Domestic violence in late-medieval Bologna
The aim of this paper is to suggest that married life in Renaissance Italy was much more violent than the current historiography allows.
Bawds, Pimps and Procurers: Images of the prostitute in medieval England
Bawds, Pimps and Procurers: Images of the prostitute in medieval England By Tom Clegg Medieval History Magazine, Issue 5 (2004) Introduction: The history…
Prosecuting animals in Medieval Europe : possible explanations
From the ninth to the nineteenth century, more than two hundred well-recorded animal trials took place in Western Europe.
Prisoners in the Castellany of Arras in the Early Fourteenth Century
The fiscal arrangements for the prison, including the charges on prisoners and the provision made for indigent prisoners, can be used to obtain other information on such matters as normal terms of imprisonment, the composition of the prison population, prison conditions, and the fate of prisoners.
A Mediaeval Burglary
A 24-page lecture from 1915 about a little known burglary of King Edward I’s treasure room in 1303. There remains some mystery of who did it, this real-life story has drama, interesting characters, scandal, cover-up, and provides a sense and feel of the times from a ground-up perspective. Includes a hand-drawn map and two relevant manuscript pages.
Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England
Were medieval jurors more inclined to condemn female self‐killers to a suicide’s death because of the familiar figure of the mad, possessed woman?