Crime and Punishment in the England of Shakespeare and Milton, 1570-1640 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime and Punishment in the England of Shakespeare and Milton, 1570-1640 write by John W. Weatherford. This book was released on 2001-04-20. Crime and Punishment in the England of Shakespeare and Milton, 1570-1640 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Crime has been present in all cultures and societies, since the beginning of time. This work focuses on the punishments common in England around the time of Shakespeare and Milton, presenting descriptions of more than fifty criminal cases. Information comes from narratives printed for the popular news media at the time of the event. Details of everyday life in England and facts about the English legal environment of the era are brought to light. Also revealed through the narratives are issues present in society today--i. e., the status of women, poverty, and corruption. Individual cases are discussed under chapters devoted to specific types of crimes.
The Common Touch
The Common Touch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Common Touch write by Adrian Roscoe. This book was released on 2014-08-11. The Common Touch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Elizabethan Age and for the following hundred and fifty years, such figures as Shakespeare and Jonson, Milton and Pope dominated the English literary scene. But what was the vast majority of society really watching, reading and singing? This pioneering anthology, set in two volumes, attempts to answer this question by offering a wide selection of material, ranging from broadside ballads and drolls to witch trial reports and political newsbooks.
Jacks, Knaves and Vagabonds
Jacks, Knaves and Vagabonds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jacks, Knaves and Vagabonds write by Gregory J Durston. This book was released on 2020-09-02. Jacks, Knaves and Vagabonds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this welcome addition to his Crime History Series, Gregory Durston points to the lack of design and short-term expediency that typified Tudor law and order. But he also detects an emergent criminal justice system amidst royal patronage, protection, and the influence of wealthy magnates. Students of English history will have heard how benefit of clergy and the ‘neck verse’ might avoid a hanging, but what of other stratagems such as down-valuing stolen goods, cruentation, chance medley, pious perjury or John at Death (a non-existent culprit blamed by the accused and treated by juries as real); all devices used to mitigate the all-pervading death-for-felony rule. Together with other artifices deployed by courts to circumvent black-letter law the author also describes how poor, marginalised and illiterate citizens were those most likely to suffer unfairness, injustice and draconian punishment. He also describes the political intrigue and widescale corruption that were symptomatic of the era, alongside such diverse aspects as forfeiture of property, evidential ploys, the rise of the highwayman, religious persecution, witchcraft and infanticide crazes. At a time of shifting allegiances?—?and as Crown, church, judges, magistrates and officials wrestled over jurisdiction, central or local control, ‘ungodly customs’, laws of convenience or malleable definitions?—?never perhaps were facts or law so expertly engineered to justify or defend often curious outcomes. Part of Durston’s Crime History Series. Covers the entire Tudor era. Based on first-hand historical research. Fully referenced to hundreds of sources.
Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set
Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set write by Philippa Gregory. This book was released on 2011-12-20. Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The six-book bosed set of the bestselling Tudor Court novels by Philippa Gregory, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "the queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY): The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen.
Medieval Justice
Medieval Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Justice write by Hunt Janin. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Medieval Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the types of justice administered in medieval times, how geography and religion shaped it, and its legacy in modern times.
