Product Description This fascinating study is the first to investigate the crimes of women living in Germany during the time of the Reformation and the Thirty Years War. Ulinka Rublack draws on court records to examine the lives of shrewd cutpurses, quarreling artisan wives, and soldiers' concubines, and exploreswomen's experiences of communities and courtship, marriage, the family, and the law. About the Author This book is also appearing in Germany in 1998, published by Fischer-Verlag in German