1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455610603321

Autore

Gaskill Malcolm

Titolo

Crime and mentalities in early modern England / / Malcolm Gaskill [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

0-511-05372-X

1-139-05189-X

0-511-15074-1

0-511-00875-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Disciplina

364.942

Soggetti

Crime - England - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-364) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mentalities from crime -- The social meaning of witchcraft, 1560-1680 -- Witches in society and culture, 1680-1750 -- The problem of coiners and the law -- Towards a solution? Coining state and people -- Crimes of blood and their representation -- Murder: police, prosecution and proof -- A transition from belief to certainty?

Sommario/riassunto

Crime and law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England attempts to reach further than most conventional treatments of the subject, to explore the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution, and to recover their hidden social meanings. In this sense the book is more than just a 'history from below': it is a history from within. Conversely, the book explores crime to shed light on the long-term development of English mentalities in general. To this end, three serious crimes - witchcraft, coining and murder - are examined in detail, revealing new and important insights into how religious reform, state formation, secularisation, and social and cultural change (for example, the spread of literacy and the availability of print) may have transformed the thinking and outlook of most ordinary people between 1550 and 1750.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785023303321

Autore

Stetkevych Suzanne Pinckney

Titolo

The mantle odes [[electronic resource] ] : Arabic praise poems to the Prophet Muhammad / / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-81828-7

9786612818288

0-253-00451-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Disciplina

892.7/1009351

Soggetti

Laudatory poetry, Arabic - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes passages translated into English.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr and the mantle of the Prophet -- al-Būṣīrī and the dream of the mantle -- Aḥmad Shawqī and the reweaving of the mantle -- Conclusion : Umm Kulthūm, al-Qaraḍāwī, and Nahj al-Burdah.