ENGLISH

Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England

By Malcolm Gaskill

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0521572754, 9780521572750
Open Library ID
OL7746863M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1831008 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Pages
390\390
Time added
2011-01-24 12:34:20

Description

Crime and the law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. This book attempts to reach further than most conventional treatments of the subject, to explore the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution, and to recover their hidden social meanings. It also examines in detail the crimes of witchcraft, coining--counterfeiting and coin-clipping--and murder, in order to reveal new and important insights into how the thinking of ordinary people was transformed between 1550 and 1750.

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