Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 7935
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Kittell , Ellen E.
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  • Title: Reconciliation or Punishment: Women, Community, and Malefaction in the Medieval County of Flanders [The author argues that women began to be associated with specific crimes during the fourteenth century in the Low Countries. In the previous century the emphasis was on reconciliation among individuals in conflict, but during the fourteenth century the courts focused on punishing the offender. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
  • Source: The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Southern Low Countries.  Edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary A. Suydam.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.  Pages 3 - 30.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Crime and Criminals Fines and Penalties Flanders Gender Law Punishment Violence
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  • Geographic Area: Low Countries
  • Century: 13- 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Idaho
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  • Year of Publication: 2004.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0312293321