Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
Malcolm Gaskill (Churchill College, Cambridge)
Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
Malcolm Gaskill (Churchill College, Cambridge)
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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