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  3. Controlling Misbehavior in England, 1370–1600
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2009
Print publication year:
1998
Online ISBN:
9780511582783
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582783
Subjects:
Social and Population History, British History: General Interest, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (34)
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Book description

In this important study, Professor McIntosh argues against the suggestion that social regulation was a distinctive feature of the decades around 1600, resulting from Puritanism. Instead, through an examination of 255 village and small-town communities distributed throughout England, Professor McIntosh demonstrates that concern with wrongdoing mounted gradually between 1370 and 1600. In an attempt to maintain good order and enforce ethical conduct, local leaders prosecuted people who slandered or quarrelled with their neighbours, engaged in sexual misdeeds, operated unruly alehouses, or refused to work. Professor McIntosh also explores who the offenders were as well as the factors that led to misbehaviour and shaped responses to it. More generally, Professor McIntosh sheds light on the transition from medieval to early modern patterns and succeeds here in opening up little-known sources and new research methods.

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‘… an extremely interesting and thought-provoking study …’

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