This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. It serves 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.
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 operation; and how attitudes and ways of understanding crime and the law may have changed.
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
