Description: This fascinating study is the first to investigate the crimes of women living in Germany during the time of the Reformation and the Thirty Years War. Ulinka Rublack draws on court records to examine the lives of shrewd cutpurses, quarreling artisan wives, and soldiers' concubines, and explores women's experiences of communities and courtship, marriage, the family, and the law.
Review Quotes: "Ulinka Rublack's study of women and crime in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....is a sophisticated analysis of female agency that is also rich in human detail and nuanced in its treatment of diverse cases and personal relationships....[A] remarkable achievement."--Central European History