Crime and mentalities in early modern England
Titel: | Crime and mentalities in early modern England / Malcolm Gaskill |
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Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Univ. Press, 2000 |
Umfang: | XIII, 377 S. |
Format: | E-Book |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Cambridge studies in early modern British history |
RVK-Notation: | Vorliegende Ausgabe: | Online-Ausg.: 2003. - Online-Ressource. |
ISBN: | 9780511008757 (Sekundärausgabe) |
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Inhaltsbeschreibung der Sammlung und Zugangshinweise
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- Introduction
- 1
- Mentalities from crime
- Part I
- Witchcraft
- 2
- The social meaning of witchcraft, 1560-1680
- 3
- Witches in society and culture, 1680-1750
- Part II
- Coining
- 4
- The problem of coiners and the law
- 5
- Towards a solution? coining, state and people
- Part III
- Murder
- 6
- Crimes of blood and their representation
- 7
- Murder: police, prosecution and proof
- Conclusion
- 8
- A transition from belief to certainty?