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Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England
Ken MacMillan, Ken MacMillan
- 274 pages
- English
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Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England
Ken MacMillan, Ken MacMillan
About This Book
Now in its second edition, Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England has been updated to include more texts about witchcraft, murder, and sexual deviance and discussions about the historical climate within which crimes occurred; voice and print culture; and types of crime and criminals.
This volume contains modernized and annotated chapbooks related to crimes such as murder, theft, infanticide, rape, and witchcraft with accompanying illustrations that depict the acts and punishments of criminals in Tudor and Stuart England. In this edition, special attention has been paid to demonstrating significant overlaps and encouraging students to question authors' reasonings behind including multiple crimes in a single work. Alongside this, further useful prompts have been included to stimulate discussion about why parables were used to open chapbooks, the historical context underpinning certain criminal acts, the value of these sources to scholars, and how certain texts compare and contrast with others.
With five new chapters and an updated introduction and bibliography, the second edition of Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England is an essential resource for all students of crime and punishment in early modern England.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Introduction
- 1 The blood-thirsty papist
- 2 The jealous mercer and the smitten lover
- 3 The strange discovery of sundry murders
- 4 The boy without any fear
- 5 The ministerâs mutilation and murder
- 6 The cock-a-doodle-doo miracle
- 7 The life and death of a bawd
- 8 The hog-keeper and her daughter
- 9 The crippleâs complaint and the strumpetâs repentance
- 10 The gentlewomanâs unnatural crimes
- 11 The unhappy litigant
- 12 The Flowers at Beaver castle
- 13 The life and death of a churlish knave
- 14 The Devilâs secretary
- 15 The witches of St Edmundsbury
- 16 The baronet at the bar
- 17 The child-killer of St Olave
- 18 The Cavalier killer gets pressed
- 19 The gardenerâs gallows reprieve
- 20 The murderous siblings of Monmouth
- 21 The widowâs murder
- 22 The beastly highwaymen
- 23 The fire in the garret
- 24 The penitent apprentice
- 25 The common witch, Goody Buts
- 26 The kindly widow and the shopkeeperâs wife
- 27 The madness of Mary Philmore
- 28 The French midwifeâs miserable moan
- 29 The wicked life of Captain Harrison
- 30 The earlâs fatal stroke
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index