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

Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England
Author: D. Lemmings
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230274676


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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.