'Counterfeit Egyptians': The construction and implementation of a criminal identity in early modern England.
English law first began to mark out 'Egyptians' as a separate, criminalised group in the sixteenth century. This article examines how statute law constructed and implemented an Egyptian identity, and the effect this had on those prosecuted. A close reading of the four Tudor Egyptian statutes is prov...
| Publicado en: | Romani Studies Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 105 - 130 |
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Liverpool University Press / Journals
2016
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