The Trial of Jeanne Catherine : Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva /

In 1686 in Geneva, a single mother named Jeanne Catherine Thomasset is charged with poisoning two young children: her own illegitimate daughter and the son of a rural wet nurse. So begins a harrowing criminal trial during which authorities interrogate Jeanne Catherine several times, sometimes with t...

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Autor principal: Beam, Sarah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Temas:
Infanticide-History-Switzerland-Sources-Geneva-17th century.
Thomasset, Jeanne Catherine-Trials, litigation, etc.-Sources.
Trials (Infanticide)-History-Switzerland-Sources-Geneva-17th century.
Coursebook.
HISTORY / Women .
Europe.
Geneva.
child murder.
criminal justice.
criminal trials.
early modern.
gender.
history.
infanticide.
primary sources.
seventeenth century.
single mothers.
torture.
wet nurses.
women.
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