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

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Law and Order, Moral Panics, and Early Modern England D.Lemmings The Concept of the Moral Panic: An Historico-Sociological Positioning D.Rowe 'This Newe Army of Satan': The Jesuit Mission and the Formation of Public Opinion in Elizabethan England A.Walsham Cross-dressing and Pamphleteering in Early Seventeenth-century London A.Bayman Fear made Flesh: The English Witch Panic of 1645-47 M.Gaskill 'A sainct in shewe, a Devill in deede': Moral Panics and Anti-Puritanism in Seventeenth-century England T.Harris 'Remember Justice Godfrey': The Popish Plot and the Construction of Panic in Seventeenth-century Media C.Walker The Dark Side of Enlightenment: The London Journal, Moral Panics and the Law in the Eighteenth Century D.Lemmings Forgers and Forgery: Severity and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Justice R.McGowen 'How frail are Lovers vows, and Dicers oaths': Gaming, Governing and Moral Panic in Britain, 1781-1782 D.Andrew A Moral Panic in London, c. 1790: 'The Monster' and the Press C.McCreery The British Jacobins: Folk devils in the Age of Counter-Revolution? M.Davis Conclusion: Moral Panics, Law and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England D.Lemmings Index