Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348

by Barbara A. Hanawalt

Book Overview

As this account of crime patterns in medieval England shows, crime can perhaps tell us more about a society's dynamics, tensions, and values than any other single social phenomenon. And Barbara Hanawalt's approach is particularly enlightening because it looks at the subject not from the heights of the era's learned opinion, but from the viewpoint of the people participating in the criminal dramas and manipulating the law for their own benefit. Hanawalt's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674175808
• ISBN13: 9780674175808
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.3"