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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2012
      08 May 2000
      ISBN:
      9781139051897
      9780521572750
      9780521531184
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521572754
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.696kg, 396 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.585kg, 396 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Legal History, Law, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    Subjects:
    Legal History, Law, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    Crime and law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. 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. In this sense the book is more than just a 'history from below': it is a history from within. Conversely, the book explores crime to shed light on the long-term development of English mentalities in general. To this end, three serious crimes - witchcraft, coining and murder - are examined in detail, revealing new and important 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.

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    ‘… the book is a pioneering monument to the complexity of early modern mental worlds and the profound shifts they underwent.’

    Source: The Historical Journal

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