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  3. Controlling Misbehavior in England, 1370–1600
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 November 2009
      22 January 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511582783
      9780521621779
      9780521894043
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582783
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.506kg, 312 Pages
      • 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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    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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    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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