Naslov
Women on the Wrong Side of the Law. Some Examples from Medieval Urban Settlements of the Sava and Drava Interamnium

Autori
Karbić, Marija

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
At the Edge of the Law: Socially Unacceptable and Illegal Behaviour in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Urednik/ci
MIljan, Suzana ; Jaritz, Gerhard

Izdavač
Medium Aevum Quotidianum

Grad
Krems an der Donau

Godina
2012

Raspon stranica
21-30

ISBN
978-3-901094-30-X

Ključne riječi
women history, the Middle Ages, urban settlements, prostitution, criminal acts

Sažetak
The article deals with the ways in which the women of medieval urban settlements of the Sava and Drava interamnium have been coming into the conflict with the law. Different criminal actions in which they were involved (from the lightest ones, such were inflicting of insults and participating in brawls, to the hardest ones, such was murder) are briefly surveyed, and then those criminal deeds which were in a way profession of women committing them (or were, at least, an additional source of income for them), such were theft and prostitution. Belonging of culprits to different social groupings, ways in which the criminal actions were performed, as well as punishments used against them is analysed. It appears that theft and prostitution has been punished by severe punishments (the theft mostly by cutting of an ear and banishment from the city, and prostitution by banishment), but often there were pardons or minimising of punishments. It is interesting that punishment for theft was equal for men and women, which corresponds to relatively favourable position of women in the urban settlements of Sava and Drava interamnium. For deeds connected to prostitution no man was ever accused, so, we cannot see with certainty how the court would be acting in such a case.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

Napomena
Prijevod izvornog znanstvenog rada “Žene s druge strane zakona. Nekoliko primjera iz srednjovjekovnih gradskih naselja u međurječju Save i Drave” objavljenog u S. Miljan (ur.), Na rubu zakona: društveno i pravno neprihvatljiva ponašanja kroz povijest (Zagreb, 2009.), 51-64.

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