Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521531184)

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.

Author: Malcolm Gaskill
ISBN-10: 0521531187
ISBN-13: 9780521531184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2003
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.18h x 5.98w x 1.01d