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History Research Guide: History 620

Researching sexual violence

The boxes on this page link to primary and secondary resources relating to sexual violence in Early Modern Europe.

Online primary source collections

Databases that track secondary sources

Two search tips

1. Use shortcuts. Typically you can use

  • the asterisk * at the end of a word stem to retrieve more results. For example, arrest* finds arrest, arrests, arrested.
  • quotation marks around phrases retrieves records with that exact string of words.
  • geographical and date limits to narrow or broaden your results.

2. Use terms that will expand (or narrow) your search

Build a bibliography

Start of the bibliography for Tallentire's MA thesis: Edifice Built Like a City Wall: Women, Gender Ideology, and the Social Construction of Space in Early Modern Europe. 1998.

From Jenéa Tallentire's bibliography for her thesis: "An Edifice Built Like a City Wall: Women, Gender Ideology, and the Social Construction of Space in Early Modern Europe." University of Regina, 1998.


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