TITLE

The Road to Farndon Field: Explaining the Massacre of the Royalist Women at Naseby

AUTHOR(S)

STOYLE, MARK

PUB. DATE

August 2008

SOURCE

English Historical Review;Aug2008, Vol. 123 Issue 503, p895

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article investigates the events that led to the massacre of hundreds of Royalist women in the road between Naseby and Farndon in Leicester, England by Parliament's New Model Army in June 1645. The Royalist women were followers of King Charles I's Royalist soldiers who were defeated and who fled the battlefield at Naseby. Discussed are the reasons for the Parliamentarian soldiers' violence on the Royalist women at a time when women non-combatants should be preserved safe from harm, the reasons for the horrible mutilation of the women and efforts to connect the massacre to witchcraft.

ACCESSION #

34395861

Tags: MASSACRES;  NASEBY, Battle of, Naseby, England, 1645;  GREAT Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649;  ROYALISTS -- History;  WOMEN -- Crimes against;  WOMEN in war;  WITCHCRAFT;  MUTILATION & maiming;  MILITARY personnel

 

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