Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900

'[This] volume's coherence and consistently high quality will recommend it to scholars as well as undergraduate students.' - English Historical Review

J. R. DICKINSON Researcher, University of York CYNTHIA HERRUP Professor of History and Law, Duke University, Durham MARTIN INGRAM Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford RANDAL MCGOWEN Professor of History, University of Oregon MARK RIGSTAD Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Oakland University, Minnesota PHILIPPE ROSENBERG Lecturer, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey KATHERINE ROYER Assistant Professor of History, California State University Stanislaus J. A. SHARPE Professor of History, University of York R. S. SHOEMAKER Reader in History, University of Sheffield GREG. T. SMITH Assistant Professor of History, University of Manitoba, Canada

Peel, Pardon, and Punishment: The Recorder's Report Revisited; S.Devereaux Public Punishment and the Manx Ecclesiastical Courts During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; J.R.Dickinson & J.A.Sharpe Bodies and Souls in Norwich: Punishing Petty Crime, 1540-1700; P.Griffiths Dean Men Talking: Truth, Texts, and the Scaffold in Early Modern England; K.R.Harris Punishing Pardons: Some Thoughts on the Origin of Penal Transportation; C.Herrup Shame and Pain: The Renaissance of Corporal Punishment in Tudor England; M.Ingram The Problem of Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England; R.McGowen The Gortian Moment: Natural Penal Rights and Republicanism; M.Rigstad A Convenient Degree of Blindness: Punitive Violence and the English Press, 1650-1700; P.Rosenberg Streets of Shame? The Crowd and Public Punishments in London, 1700-1820; R.S.Shoemaker I Could Hang Anything You Can Bring Before Me: England's Willing Executioners in 1883; G.T.Smith Index