CRIME,LAW AND POPULAR CULTURE IN EUROPE,1500-1900

Exploring The Relationship Between Crime, Law And Popular Culture In Europe From The 16th Century Onwards, This Title Looks At How Crime Was Understood And Dealt With By Ordinary People, As Well As Looking At To What Degree Official Law And The Criminal Justice System Was Rejected As A Means Of Dealing With Criminal Activity. Popular Violence And Its Prosecution In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century France -- The Containment Of Violence In Central European Cities, 1500-1800 -- Royal Justice, Popular Culture And Violence: Homicide In Sixteenth And Seventeenth Century Castile -- Prosecution And Public Participation - The Case Of Early Modern Sweden -- Towards A Legal Anthropology Of The Early Modern Isle Of Man -- 'for Fear Of The Vengeance': The Prosecution Of Homicide In Pre-famine And Famine Ireland -- Violent Crime And The Public Weal In England, 1700-1900 -- Atonement And Domestic Homicide In Late Victorian Scotland -- 'a Second Ireland'? Crime And Popular Culture In Nineteenth Century Wales. Edited By Richard Mcmahon. This Collection Of Essays Has Its Origins In A Conference Entitled 'crime, Law And Popular Culture In Europe Since 1500' Which Was Hosted By The Moore Institute For Research In The Humanities And Social Studies At The National University Of Ireland, Galway--p. Vii. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. It serves to illuminate how experiences of and attitudes to crime and the law may have corresponded or differed in different locations and contexts as well as contributing to a wider understanding of popular culture and consciousness in early modern and modern Europe.