Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
Malcolm Gaskill
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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Ano:
2000
Editora:
Cambridge University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
390
ISBN 10:
0521572754
ISBN 13:
9780521572750
Série:
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Arquivo:
PDF, 1.75 MB
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english, 2000