Crime, Law And Popular Culture In Europe,

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? Overall, the volume will serve to illuminate how experiences of and attitudes to crime and the law may have corresponded or differed in different locations and contexts as well as contributing to a wider understanding of popular culture and consciousness in early modern and modern Europe.This new book:explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from C16 onwardsoffersoriginal research from high profile contributorsis a key contribution to historiographical debates

Richard Mc Mahon is a researcher based in the School of Humanities (History) at the University of Dundee.

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on the contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Popular violence and its prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France	p. 32
The containment of violence in Central European cities, 1500-1800	p. 52
Royal justice, popular culture and violence: homicide in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Castile	p. 74
Prosecution and public participation - the case of early modern Sweden	p. 96
Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man	p. 118
'For fear of the vengeance': the prosecution of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland	p. 138
Violent crime and the public weal in England, 1700-1900	p. 190
Atonement and domestic homicide in late Victorian Scotland	p. 219
'A second Ireland'? Crime and popular culture in nineteenth-century Wales	p. 239
Index	p. 262
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Crime, Law And Popular Culture In Europe, 1500-1900

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