Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900

Richard Mc Mahon is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

• Introduction 1. Popular Violence and its prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France 2. The containment of violence in Central European cities, 1500-1800 3. Royal Justice, popular culture and violence: homicide in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Castile 4. Prosecution and public participation - the case of early modern Sweden 5. Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man 6. 'For fear of the vengeance': the prosecution of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland 7. Violent crime and the public weal in England, 1700-1900 8. Atonement and domestic homicide in late Victorian Scotland 9. 'A second Ireland'? Crime and popular culture in nineteenth-century Wales Index

Most...essays in this volume are valuable contributions to the historiography of crime, in particular violent crime, and its relationship to the law.-Pieter Spierenburg, Erasmus Universiteit, in Crime, History & Societies vol 14 no 1