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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Paul Seaver
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Symposium: Controlling (Mis)Behavior
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 3: Controlling (Mis)Behavior: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives , July 1998 , pp. 231 - 245
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1998

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13 For the later use of “nightwalking,” see Shoemaker, , Prosecution and Punishment, p. 26Google Scholar, n. 29, where Shoemaker quotes a seventeenth-century description as describing those who slept all day and frequented bawdy houses or the company of thieves at night. But it was a term also used about women suspected of prostitution (see Shoemaker, , Prosecution and Punishment, p. 61Google Scholar).

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