Term 1

The first seminar will be held in Week 2.

• The Problem of Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe I.
• The Problem of Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe II.
• Contemporary Representations and Perceptions I.
• Contemporary Representations and Perceptions II.
• Reading Week - no seminar
• Staff.
• Investigations and Trials.
• Verdicts, Sentences, Pardons, and Appeals.
• Mediation, Reconciliation, Feuding, and Dueling.

Term 2

• Political Crimes.
• Violent Crimes.
• Property Crimes.
• Religious Crimes.
• Vagrancy.
• Reading Week - no seminar
• Fines, Exile, Shaming, and Penance.
• Forced Labour and Imprisonment.
• Corporal and Capital Punishments.
• Continuities and Discontinuities in Crime and Punishment c. 1500-c. 1750.