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An exploration of the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution in England, 1550-1750.

Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws

Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal d

Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcendin