| Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England Contributor(s): Gaskill, Malcolm (Author) |
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ISBN: 113905189X ISBN-13: 9781139051897 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $140.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.942 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |