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A widow's vengeance after the wars of religion : gender and justice in Renaissance France /

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Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delacanche, who had committed multiple acts of rape, homicide and theft against the villagers who lived around her château near the cathedral city of Sens. Bu...

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Main Author: Hamilton, Tom, 1987- (Author)
Format: Unknown
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2024].
Subjects:
France. > Edit de Nantes.
War crime trials > France > History > 17th century.
Women and war > France > History > 17th century.
France > History > Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.

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