Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcendin

The social, political and cultural factors determining conformity and obedience as well as dissidence and revolt are traced in sixteenth and early seventeenth c

Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.

With some notable exceptions, the subject of outlawry in medieval and early-modern English history has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. This vol

This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period