Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England by Malcolm Gaskill
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.-
Popular Politics and the English Reformation
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Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
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Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms
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Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 16501750
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Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 15501640
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The Blind Devotion of the People
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John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s
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Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
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The Chief Governors
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The Early Elizabethan Polity
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London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II
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Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 16601685
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The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England
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Georgian Monarchy
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The Family of Love in English Society, 15501630
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Reason and Religion in the English Revolution
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Godly Kingship in Restoration England
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England's Second Reformation
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Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution
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The Common Peace
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William III and the Godly Revolution
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Europe and the Making of England, 16601760
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Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
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Frenzy in Early Modern England
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Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649
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Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
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Godly Reading
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Reformation Unbound
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John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture
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Unquiet Lives
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The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 15411641
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The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland
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Religion and the Book in Early Modern England
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Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture
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Print Culture and the Early Quakers
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The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England
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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War
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The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics
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Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State
'… the book is a pioneering monument to the complexity of early modern mental worlds and the profound shifts they underwent' The Historical Journal
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521531184 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521531187 |
| Title | Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England |
| Author | Malcolm Gaskill |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Early Modern British History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2003-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 396 |
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