TY - JOUR
AU - Wiesner-Hanks, Merry
AB - journal of social history spring 2005 graph of the story, thus reducing the suspense and lessening the desire to read on to find the answer. In contrast, this review will not reveal the decisions, but will instead suggest that readers should examine Murder, Honor and Law them, selves to discover what happened. The result will be worth the read. After all, such studies form the core of the approach of the historian as detective-in this case, answering many questions and trying to solve the continuing mystery of the southern mind. Georgetown College James C. Klotter Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modem Spain: Vizcaya, 1528­ 1735. By Renata Barahona (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xxi plus 274 pp. $60.00). This is a study of roughly 350 cases involving sexual misconduct from the pro, vince of Vizcaya, one of the Basque provinces of northern Spain. It is based pri­ marily on records housed in the archive of the Real Chancellerla in Valladolid, where cases heard in Vizcaya came on appeal. As he explains in the intellcc­ tual autobiography included in the introduction, Barahona began this project almost forty years ago, when he was a graduate student working 
TI - Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain: Vizcaya, 1528–1735. By Renato Barahona (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xxi plus 274 pp. $60.00)
JO - Journal of Social History
DO - 10.1353/jsh.2005.0012
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/sex-crimes-honour-and-the-law-in-early-modern-spain-vizcaya-1528-1735-4Nq0rzCGh4
SP - 806
EP - 808
VL - 38
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -