Understanding Medieval Women Through Crime
Gone Medieval
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What's the Difference Between a Barber and a Wife?
One of my favourites, in terms of kind of imagining the real life of this involves a married couple. So there's h two officials that are reporting an affray or a fight and they come to the court,. A man called thomas benton, who is a barber, he seized another man called hugh whimslow by his breast. The next entry in these court records relates to joan, who's the wife of h Hugh whimslow. She came into the common halls of the same building, and she slapped him in the face. And i just love this, because i imagine it like something fom a senders, that these men, for whatever reason, have had
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