Maria R. Boes

Specialization

Early Modern European History, focusing on the judicial-legal and socio-economic treatment of Jews, Gypsies, Gays, Women, and Juveniles, as well as the role of the Military.

Select Publications

Books

  • "The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town. Personal Recollection, Private Letters, and Oral Testimony" Bloomsbury Academic, UK, 2025
  • Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany. Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562-1696, Ashgate, UK, 2013. Read the review in Renaissance Quarterly. Read the review in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte.

Select Book Chapters and Articles

  • "Zur Rechtsprechung über Soldaten in der Reichsstadt Frankfurt zwischen 1562 und 1696" in Militar und Recht vom 16. bis 19. Jahrhundert, Jutta Nowosadtko, Diethelm Klipperl, Kai Lohsträter, eds.  V&R, 2016.
  • "Unwanted Travellers: Tightening of City Borders in Early Modern Germany." In Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe. Tom Betteridge, ed. Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2007.
  • "Zweifach im Visier. Jüdische Opfer von Straftaten und Rechtsprechung im Römischen-Deutschen Reich der Frühen Neuzeit" in Juden im Recht, Andreas Gotzmann, Stephan Wendehorst, eds. Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung  Beiheft 39, 2007.
  • "'Dishonourable' youth, guilds, and the changed world view of sex, illegitimacy, and women in late sixteenth-century Germany," Continuity and Change 18, n. 3 (2003).
  • "On Trial for Sodomy in Early Modern Germany." In Sodomy in Early Modern Germany, Tom Betteridge, ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.
  • "Jews in the Criminal Justice System of Early Modern Germany," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30, n. 3 (Winter, 1999).
  • "Public Appearance and Criminal Judicial Practices in Early Modern Germany," Social Science History 20, n. 2 (1996).
  • "The treatment of juvenile delinquents in early modern Germany :a case study," Continuity and Change II (1), 1996.
  • "Women and the Penal System in Early Modern Germany," Criminal Justice History: An International Annual, Vol. XIII, 1992.

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Background

Ph.D.: The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. BA/MA: Hunter College, New York Contact

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