A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England
Posted by Sara M. Butler; 17 August, 2018. Setting the Scene The period leading up to the expulsion of the Jews from England in July of 1290 was a time of mounting uncertainty for the Anglo Jewry. That...
View ArticleFemme Sole Status: A Failed Feminist Dream?
Posted by Sara M. Butler; 8 February 2019. When reading over an anonymous reviewer’s comments on a manuscript I was writing on the subject of women’s legal disability in medieval England, I was...
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Star Chamber as a Marriage Court
Posted by Krista Kesselring, 11 November 2019. The early modern Court of Star Chamber lives on in some popular historical accounts as an engine of despotic tyranny, a sham court that censored...
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Domestic Violence and Rough Justice in Star Chamber (1612)
Posted by Krista J. Kesselring, 20 April 2021. ‘Justice’ comes in many forms. Women mired in violent marriages in early modern England had little hope of formal, legal escape but might try for justice...
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Should ‘Witches’ Receive Posthumous Pardons?
Posted by Krista J. Kesselring, 3 January 2022 Recent reports suggest that the Scottish government plans to pardon people convicted under the terms of the Witchcraft Act of 1563—mostly women—in...
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