Crime and mentalities in early modern England / Malcolm Gaskill.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in early modern British historyPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0511008759
- 9780511008757
- 9781139051897
- 113905189X
- 9780511053726
- 051105372X
- 0511150741
- 9780511150746
- Crime -- England -- History
- Murder -- Social aspects -- England
- Witchcraft -- Social aspects -- England
- Counterfeits and counterfeiting -- Social aspects -- England
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- England
- England -- Social conditions -- 16th century
- England -- Social conditions -- 17th century
- Crimen Inglaterra Historia
- HV6949.5
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | HV6949.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocm52740284\ |
Includes bibliographies and index.
Mentalities from crime -- The social meaning of witchcraft, 1560-1680 -- Witches in society and culture, 1680-1750 -- The problem of coiners and the law -- Towards a solution? Coining state and people -- Crimes of blood and their representation -- Murder: police, prosecution and proof -- A transition from belief to certainty?
"Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England 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." "Conversely, the book exploits crime to shed light on the long-term development of English mentalities in general. To this end, three serious crimes - witchcraft, coining (counterfeiting and coin-clipping) and murder - are examined in detail, using a wide range of primary sources, revealing insights into how religious reform, state formation, secularisation, and social and cultural change (for example, the spread of literacy and the availability of print) may have transformed the thinking and outlook of most ordinary people between 1550 and 1750"--Jacket.
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