The London Hanged
The London Hanged

Author: Peter Linebaugh

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1789602092

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Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it evidently served the most sinister purpose-for a prvileged ruling class-of forcing the poor population of London to accept the criminalization of customary rights and the new forms of private property. Necessity drove the city's poor into inevitable conflict with the changing property laws, such that all the working-class men and women of London had good reason to fear the example of Tyburn's Triple Tree. In this new edition Peter Linebaugh reinforces his original arguments with responses to his critics based on an impressive array of historical sources. As the trend of capital punishment intensifies with the spread of global capitalism, The London Hanged also gains in contemporary relevance.

The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901
The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901

Author: Keith A. Francis

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-10-04

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 0199583595

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This Handbook accesses historical, theological, rhetorical, literary and linguistic studies to demonstrate the interdisciplinary strength of the field of sermon studies and to show the centrality of sermons to private and public life in this 'golden age' of the British sermon.