ISBN-13: 9780631130741 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 252 str.
‘T he Justice and the Mare′s Ale is two books rather than one, and two rather good books at that. One of them is a work of detailed local history...giving a blow by blow account of the criminal careers and eventual comeuppance of a dozen Westmorland burglars and coin–clippers in the early 1680s. The other is a sequel to The Origins of English Individualism , a second instalment of Macfarlane′s argument that the peculiarities of the English are very peculiar indeed, and that pace the sociological orthodoxy England never was a "pre–modern" or pre–capitalist or peasant society.′ Times Educational Supplement
A historically reconstructed detective story, The Justice and the Mare′s Ale is a case study brought alive by documents, through which readers can explore the way in which law worked in practice in late – seventeenth century northern England and the ways in which criminal law and ordinary life intersected during that period.