Malcolm Gaskill - Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
Published: 2003-01-30 | ISBN: 0521531187, 0521572754 | PDF | 396 pages | 3 MB
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.