Historical background and the operations of the court.

This is the first work devoted to setting the legal system of the early 15th century in its social and political context. Rejecting the traditional view of late

Suggests that public interest was vital to early modern state legitimacy and political reform in Western Europe and East Asia.

Crime in England 1688-1815 covers the ‘long’ eighteenth century, a period which saw huge and far-reaching changes in criminal justice history. These changes