MacMillan, K: Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart Engl
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
10.04.2015
Abbildungen
farbige, schwarzweisse Abbildungen
Herausgeber
Ken MacMillanVerlag
Taylor and FrancisSeitenzahl
234
Maße (L/B/H)
23.4/15.6/1.4 cm
Gewicht
453 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-138-85400-0
"This collection provides an excellent source book, which gathers together a wide range of primary sources on the history of crime and presents them in a highly accessible way that is particularly useful for undergraduates studying the subject for the first time. The introduction provides a very effective and concise summary of existing debates, and a clear and well-signposted route into this exciting and important historical subject. The great strength of this collection is the richness of the sources that it provides for the sixteenth and seventeenth century, which adds important historical depth to a subject that has focused in recent years more on the records of the Old Bailey and the eighteenth century." Henry French, University of Exeter, UK "Ken MacMillan’s Stories of True Crime is both a treasury of early modern true crime stories and a valuable resource for instructors and students of early modern legal, social and cultural history. The author has painstakingly selected, edited, transcribed and annotated a broad range of early modern criminal accounts: some indeed sensational and bloody, others more prosaic, but all of them compelling and instructive, shedding light on both the legal and larger social and cultural contexts of crime and punishment in late Elizabethan and Stuart England. Readers will benefit from the author’s clear and cogent introductory sections, legal and historical overviews, and explanatory notes. In an age in which the sheer volume of early modern print available digitally can be overwhelming, MacMillan’s collection is all the more useful, and timely, in that it provides a judicious selection of some of the most striking and evocative examples of the genre." Andrea McKenzie, University of Victoria, Canada
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