Charity, debt and social control in England’s early modern prisons

From the mid-sixteenth century, the prison was increasingly fundamental to social relations and economic life in early modern England. An explosion of civil litigation was accompanied by unprecedented levels of imprisonment for debt, leaving many prisoners reliant upon a growing economy of prison ch...

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主要作者: Bell, RT
格式: Journal article
语言:English
出版: Routledge 2022