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By Darlene Abreu-Ferreira

ISBN-10: 1472442318

ISBN-13: 9781472442314

the studies of girls in early smooth Portugal within the context of crime and forgiveness, this examine demonstrates the level to which judicial and quasi-judicial documents can be utilized to envision the results of crime in women’s lives, even if as sufferers or culprits. The foundational foundation for this research is 2 units of manuscript assets that spotlight specified but hooked up reports of girls as individuals within the felony procedure. One comprises a suite of archival records from the 1st 1/2 the 17th century, a corpus known as 'querelas,' during which formal accusations of legal acts have been registered. it is a wealthy resource of data not just concerning the varieties of crimes stated, but in addition the method that plaintiffs needed to persist with to house their circumstances. the second one basic resource comprises a sampling of files referred to as the ’perdão de parte.’ The time period refers back to the victim’s pardon, specific to the Iberian Peninsula, which allowed members implicated in critical conflicts to have a voice within the judicial strategy. by means of a pattern of those pardons, present in notary collections from the 16th and 17th centuries, Abreu-Ferreira is ready to express the level to which ladies exercised their enterprise in a criminal procedure that used to be differently male-dominated.

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