Title Information
Title
“To Plunder all under the Petty-coate”: Prosecuting Sexual Crime and Gendered Violence In The English Revolution
Name: Personal
Name Part
Housman, Talya
Role
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creator
Name: Personal
Name Part
Harris, Tim
Role
Role Term: Text
Advisor
Name: Personal
Name Part
Nummedal, Tara
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Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
McDermott, Rose
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Reader
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Brown University. Department of History
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sponsor
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2019
Physical Description
Extent
x, 334 p.
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born digital
Note: thesis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2019
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theses
Abstract
This project offers a revision to the social historiography of the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. Due to the increase in gendered and sexualized rhetoric in political propaganda and the changes to the social and political institutions that governed morality and sexuality, some historians have suggested that there were similar disruptions in patterns of the incidence and prosecution of gendered violence and sexual crime. By examining the common-law prosecution of gendered violence and sexual crime at a local level, this dissertation argues for social stability, rather than disruption during this period. Using digital humanities tools and common law records from Essex, Sussex, Somerset, Wiltshire, and Norfolk, this project conducts quantitative and qualitative analyses of three types of offenses: illegal sex, domestic violence, and bastardy. The incidence of, prosecution of, and approach to all of these types of crimes remained unchanged throughout this period of political unrest. A stable social order in spite of political chaos indicates an enduring respect for local judicial authority. This gap between political rhetoric and the reality of sexual crime in this period encourages historians to create compelling social-historical narratives that attend to a broader array of sources in a new enriched social history.
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Social history
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Topic
women's history
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Early modern history
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Early Modern England,
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Gender
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Sex
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Topic
Men--Sexual behavior
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Women
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Law
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Sexual Violence
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Topic
British History
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Legal History
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Crime
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Topic
Sexual harassment of women
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Topic
gender roles
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Topic
Interregnum
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Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649)
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Courts
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Family violence
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Illegitimate children
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School discipline--Social aspects
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Women--Social conditions
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Prosecution
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Sex role
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Public welfare
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Social service
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Common law
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Local government
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Local government--Law and legislation
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Topic
Assizes
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Quarter Sessions
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England--Essex
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England--Norfolk
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England--Sussex
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England--Kent
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England--Somerset
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England--Middlesex
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England--Bedfordshire
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England--Wiltshire
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Topic
England
Language
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English
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20190603
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/n46m-jf22
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