Crime and mentalities in early modern England / Malcolm Gaskill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaskill, Malcolm.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--England--History.

Crime.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

xiii, 377 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-364) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0521572754

OCLC:

41628211