Crime and consequence in early modern literature and law / Judith Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Judith, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and literature--England--History.

Law and literature.

Law in literature.

Law--England--History.

Law.

England--Social conditions.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of crime must inevitably lead to a preoccupation with consequences. This volume analyses contemporary literary and legal texts, including drama, poetry and commentaries on the law, and considers how 'proportionable' punishment was imagined in the early modern period and how the possibility of justice miscarried might influence that imagining.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on Spelling, Citation and Abbreviation

Series Editor’s Preface

Introduction

1. ‘Vipers in the bosom of our Law’: The Emergence of Perjury as a Common Law Offence

2. ‘Hollow-hearted angels’: Coins, Counterfeits and the Discourses of Treason

3. ‘The Woman’s Case put to the Lawyers’: Miscarriage of Justice and the Case of Anne Greene

4. Pardon and Oblivion: Pardon, Benefit of Clergy, Peine Forte et Dure

5. ‘England’s rubidg’: Mary Carleton and the Early Use of Transportation

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 17, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Hudson, Judith Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law

ISBN:

1-4744-5438-0

1-3995-1343-5

1-4744-5437-2

OCLC:

1293254367