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Law, Crime, and Punishment


This webpage is intended to help guide undergraduates researching issues on law, crime, and punishment in Early Modern England. If you have any questions or would like to offer suggestions for additions to this webpage, please contact Leigh Anne Palmer, Librarian for English and American Literature.

Subject Terms

Search the MSEL Catalog using these subject terms:

Female offenders -- Great Britain -- History.
Crime -- Great Britain -- History.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain -- History.

Books

Babington, Anthony. The English Bastille: A History of Newgate Gaol and Prison Conditions in Britian 1188-1902. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971. Libraries Services center HV9650.L7 N45 1971

Burford, E J and Sandra Shulman. Of Bridles and Burnings: The Punishment of Women. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Libraries Services Center HV 8532 .G8 B871 1992

Byman, Seymour. "Ritualistic Acts and Compulsive Behavior: The Pattern of Tudor Martyrdom." American Historical Review 83 (1978): 625-43. Available electronically through JStor

Clark, Peter, and Paul Slack, eds. Crisis and Order in English Towns, 1500-1700: Essays in Urban History. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1972. Eisenhower Stacks HT133 .C54 1972

Erickson, Amy Louise. Women and Property in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 1993. Eisenhower Stacks HQ 1593 .E751 1993

Jones, Norman. God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. Eisenhower Government Publications-Law KD1740.J66 1989

Judges, A.V. The Elizabethan Underworld. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1930. Eisenhower Stacks PO429.R6 J9

Karras, Ruth. "The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (1989): 426. Available electronicall through ProQuest Education Journals

Kermode, Jennifer and Garthine Walker, eds. Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. London: UCL Press, 1994. Eisenhower Stacks HV 6046 .W6531 1994

Kinney, Arthur F, ed. Rogues, Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature Exposing the Lives, Times, and Cozening Tricks of the Elizabethan Underworld. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1990. Eisenhower Stacks PO1309.R64 R6 1990

McMullan, John L. The Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld, 1550-1700. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1984. Eisenhower Stacks HV6950.L7 M351 1984

Salgado, Gamini. The Elizabethan Underworld. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1977. Eisenhower Stacks HV6950.L6 S35 1977

Slack, Paul. Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Longman, 1988. Eisenhower Stacks HC254.4 .S421 1988

Woodbridge, Linda. Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Eisenhower D-Level Blue Labels PR428.R63 W66 2001

Webpages

Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England

Crime and the Law


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