Crime, Justice, and Public Order in France, 1696-1788
Title | Crime, Justice, and Public Order in France, 1696-1788 PDF eBook |
Author | Julius Ralph Ruff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Crime |
ISBN |
Crime, Justice, and Public Order in France, 1696-1788
Title | Crime, Justice, and Public Order in France, 1696-1788 PDF eBook |
Author | Julius Ralph Ruff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Crime and criminals |
ISBN |
Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France
Title | Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France PDF eBook |
Author | Julius R. Ruff |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2015-08-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317372948 |
This title, first published in 1984, is a case study of crime and criminal justice in rural, southwestern France in the last century of the Old Regime. Based on extensive research in criminal court records, often the only documentary evidence of the poor and illiterate, the study is a valuable addition both to our knowledge of Old Regime society and to our understanding of its judicial institutions. Rural, Old Regime France seethed with violence. Assault, homicide, and a violence of speech occurred frequently at all levels of society. The author’s finding that royal fiscal and judicial officials were recurring targets of this violence additionally contributes to our understanding of the revolutionary events ending the Old Regime. This system, providing in principle for judicial torture and corporal and capital punishments for relatively minor crimes, has long epitomized much that was wrong with pre-revolutionary France. But the law in principle is not the law in practice, and the author finds that both local and appeals courts seldom decreed such measures. This book will be of interest to students of history and criminology.
Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France
Title | Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France PDF eBook |
Author | Julius R. Ruff |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2015-08-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131737293X |
This title, first published in 1984, is a case study of crime and criminal justice in rural, southwestern France in the last century of the Old Regime. Based on extensive research in criminal court records, often the only documentary evidence of the poor and illiterate, the study is a valuable addition both to our knowledge of Old Regime society and to our understanding of its judicial institutions. Rural, Old Regime France seethed with violence. Assault, homicide, and a violence of speech occurred frequently at all levels of society. The author’s finding that royal fiscal and judicial officials were recurring targets of this violence additionally contributes to our understanding of the revolutionary events ending the Old Regime. This system, providing in principle for judicial torture and corporal and capital punishments for relatively minor crimes, has long epitomized much that was wrong with pre-revolutionary France. But the law in principle is not the law in practice, and the author finds that both local and appeals courts seldom decreed such measures. This book will be of interest to students of history and criminology.
Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France
Title | Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France PDF eBook |
Author | Julius R. Ruff |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Crime |
ISBN |
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
Title | At Day's Close: Night in Times Past PDF eBook |
Author | A. Roger Ekirch |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2006-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393329011 |
Beautifully illuminated by a color insert and with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this compelling narrative of night is panoramic in scope yet fashioned on an intimate scale and enriched by personal stories.
Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735-1789: Volume 1, The System of Criminal Justice
Title | Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735-1789: Volume 1, The System of Criminal Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Mowery Andrews |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 642 |
Release | 1994-04-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521361699 |
The first of two volumes centred around the two great courts of eighteenth-century Paris.