Book: Crime And Mentalities In Early Modern England 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.
Details of Book: Crime And Mentalities In Early Modern England Book: Crime And Mentalities In Early Modern England
Author: Malcolm Gaskill, Anthony Fletcher, John Guy
ISBN: 0521531187
ISBN-13: 9780521531184
, 978-0521531184
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 30012003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 396
Language: English