Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900

ISBN-13: 9781843921189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str.

Opis

Explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe. This book addresses issues such as: participation by ordinary people as prosecutors, witnesses and jurors in the courts; the dynamics of court sittings; popular resistance to the o

Recenzje

Most...essays in this volume are valuable contributions to the historiography of crime, in particular violent crime, and its relationship to the law.
-Pieter Spierenburg, Erasmus Universiteit, in Crime, History & Societies

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Popular Violence and its prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France  2. The containment of violence in Central European cities, 1500-1800  3. Royal Justice, popular culture and violence: homicide in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Castile  4. Prosecution and public participation - the case of early modern Sweden  5. Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man  6. 'For fear of the vengeance': the prosecution of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland  7. Violent crime and the public weal in England, 1700-1900  8. Atonement and domestic homicide in late Victorian Scotland  9. 'A second Ireland'? Crime and popular culture in nineteenth-century Wales  Index

O autorze

Richard Mc Mahon is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.