Understanding Medieval Women Through Crime
Gone Medieval
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Women in Court Records
Women always appear in lower numbers than men. In some types of cases that i've looked at, we've got maybe up to so of 25 % of the litigants being women. And that's on both sides. So those cases where it's one person complaining about another, we have women doing the complaining, but also being the subjects of the complaints as well. I think we'd always expect to find more men these records and women. And we do, but they're not so unusual that it's kind of exceptional. They're definitely not so rare that it's not worth studying them or looking at them.
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