Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England

Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England PDF Author: D. Lemmings
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230274676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Book Description
An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, with the development of newspapers and government sensibility to opinion, it also considers earlier panics about cross-dressing and witchcraft.