Название: Crime and mentalities in early modern England
Автор: Malcolm Gaskill
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 392
Размер: 13.9 Мб
Язык: 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.