Understanding Medieval Women Through Crime
Gone Medieval
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The Relationship Between Agnes Hallam and Her Husband
Agnes hallam is sued for assaulting a woman, who was probably a servant of a man in the town. But when somebody accused her of violence, she says you need speak to my husband. He's not here, so you haven't got a case. And as a result, the case gets dropped and the man gets fined for kind of breaking rules of the court. I think that really demonstrates quite nicely how a lot of women's rolls could be more flexible than what we tend to think win or sort of 20 first century perspectives. We quite often ascribe the sort of quite strict rules in the past, thinking that must have been how it was. But when this seems like there
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