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Cover image for book Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England

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

By:D. Lemmings
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230527324
eText ISBN:9780230274679
Edition:0
Copyright:2009
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.