Women Thieves in Early Modern England: What Can We Learn from Narrative Sources?

The purpose of this paper on women thieves in the early modern period is to show what remains to be learnt from narrative sources. It starts from the conclusions of quantitative research on the topic to point out the limits of this approach and moves on to arguing that narrative sources such as the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armel Dubois-Nayt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2008-10-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/738