Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 19093
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Sims , Richard F.
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  • Title: Secondary Offenders? English Women and Crime, c. 1220-1348 [The author analyzes records from the south and southwest of England. Women committed fewer crimes than men. They were less aggressive, Sims argues, not because there was a public repugnance for violent women, but because the crimes they preferred, such as larceny and burglary, were best committed quickly and quietly. The author also briefly addresses infanticide and insanity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women 4: Victims or Viragos?  Edited by Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless.  Four Courts Press, 2005.  Pages 69 - 88.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Crime and Criminals Infanticide Mental Illness Murder Violence
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 13- 14
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  • Related Resources: Richard Sims has contributed an article on women and crime in England between c. 1220 and 1348. Sims positions his study in the context of Barbara Hanawalt's classic 1974 article on the female felon and examines criminal records from the south and south-e
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  • Year of Publication: 2005.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 1851828885