Crime and the law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. This book 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. It also examines in detail the crimes of witchcraft, coining-counterfeiting and coin-clipping-and murder, in order to reveal new and important insights into how the thinking of ordinary people was transformed between 1550 and 1750. | Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England by Malcolm Gaskill, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters