Before beginning the module, all students are encouraged to read at least one of the following books:

Barrett, Andrew, and Christopher Harrison, eds, Crime and Punishment in England: A Sourcebook (London, 1999), Chapters 2, 3, and 4.

Boes, Maria R., Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany: Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562-1696 (Farnham, 2013)

Cohen, Thomas V., and Elizabeth S. Cohen (eds and trans), Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials Before the Papal Magistrates (Toronto, 1993)

Heijden, Manon van der, Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland, trans. David McKay (Leiden, 2016)

Kollmann, Nancy Shields, Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia (Cambridge, 2015)

Sharpe, J. A., Crime in Early Modern England, 1550-1750 (Abingdon, 1999)