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Livre 6 sur 6: Crime and City in History

Schmidt, Ariadne

 
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Synopsis

In the early modern period women played a prominent role in crime. At times they even made up half of all defendants. Female criminality was a typically urban phenomenon. Why do we find so many women before the Dutch criminal courts?

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À propos de l'auteur

Ariadne Schmidt, Ph.D. (2001), is the professor by special appointment of the history of urban culture, in particular of Leiden, and lecturer in social and economic history at Leiden University. She has published widely on early modern urban history, gender history, family history and the history of women's work.

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