The Common Peace
Subtitle: Participation and the Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 25, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521375870
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Crime & criminology; English law: criminal law; c 1600 to c 1700; Legal History; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; England; Criminal Law - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; Criminal law; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; Law / Criminal Law; Law / Legal History; Law-Legal History
First sentence: As recently as fifteen years ago, scholars considered the criminal law of Tudor and Stuart England barbaric, the backwater of an increasingly sophisticated legal culture.