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Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England

Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

CriminologyGeneral LawBritish History

ISBN10: 0521531187
ISBN13: 9780521531184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 30 2003
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.26
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
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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