Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900Richard McMahon This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. How was crime understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal activity? |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Popular violence and its prosecution in seventeenth and eighteenthcentury France | 32 |
2 The containment of violence in Central European cities 15001800 | 52 |
homicide in sixteenth and seventeenthcentury Castile | 74 |
4 Prosecution and public participation the case of early modern Sweden | 96 |
5 Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man | 118 |
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Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900 Richard McMahon,Richard McMahon (Research fellow) No preview available - 2008 |
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