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- Title
Policing Itinerant Poor in the Northern Low Countries, 1450-1570.
- Authors
COOMANS, JANNA
- Abstract
The article investigates the rise of urban policing of itinerant poor in the Northern Low Countries in the late medieval period and practices of prosecution show important variations between cities and compared to urban bylaws and other regulations. It mentions complex making of vagrancy as a social and legal category to negotiate the reality of a highly mobile society, with a major impact on the attitudes towards itinerant poor and on the latter's lives.
- Subjects
POLICE; LAW enforcement; VAGRANCY; VICTIMLESS crimes; POOR people
- Publication
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2023, Vol 138, Issue 2, p3
- ISSN
0165-0505
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.51769/bmgn-lchr.11116