Of bridles and burnings : the punishment of women
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Of bridles and burnings : the punishment of women
Classmark: Bedford Collection A740
Creator(s): Burford, E J; Shulman, Sandra
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; R. Hale; illustrations
Publication city: New York : London
Date(s): 1992
Language: English
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/739192
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020002495705181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.
1. The Roots of Punishment -- 2. Burning and Drowning -- Through Fire and Water -- 3. Branks -- Women should be Seen but not Heard -- 4. Whipping -- Women, Dogs and Walnut Trees -- 5. Ducking-stool -- The Shaming of the Shrew -- 6. Hanging -- The Flowers of the Gallows Tree -- 7. Penance -- The Devil's Gateway and the Price of Pleasure -- 8. Imprisonment -- The Stones of Law -- 9. Stocks, Pillory, Thew and Cage -- Of Sores and Shames -- 10. Transportation -- The Moll Flanders Sisterhood -- 11. Witches -- Perilous Objects -- 12. Postscript.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A740: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: MS/31.
Access and usage
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