Crime, Policing, and Punishment in Early Modern London |
EIU His 5400.001 [60032], Summer 2013, Newton Key 9:00-11:30 M, W, Coleman 2750 Syllabus as pdf (brief version) |
How have historians used the Online Old Bailey Sessions Papers and other records of crime and punishment in order to reveal hidden worlds of the London cosmopolis in the 17th and 18th centuries? Two central texts help us comprehend the largest city in Europe by 1700 and envision living on the “street.” Additional readings help us understand riot, social crime, early modern justice system, and policing before the Bobbies. We will use our learned knowledge of navigating the metropolis and the legal procedures as well as the analytical language of social and legal historians to help show how records of the trials and punishments of criminals caught can reveal London worlds and underworlds. Course is a hybrid with several of the in-class meetings replaced by a-synchronous discussion and class blogging (submissions eiu online, d2l, unless noted). | Available from Textbook Services:
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week 1. Introducing London: Why study the history of cities? Of criminals? Of the poor?
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Hollar, Royal Exchange (1644) |
week 2. Mapping London
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Visscher, London panorama (1616, detail) |
week 3. Policing London
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Old Bailey Sessions House (1750) |
week 4. Being Poor in London
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Cries of London (18th cent. playing cards) |
week 5. Narrating the London Poor
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The Fortunate Transport (1741) |
week 6. Staging Punishments
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Daniel Defoe in the pillory |
week 7. The Mob, Riots, and Social Crime
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William Hogarth, from Hudibras (1725/6) |
week 8. Reporting/Narrating Crime
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Jonathan Wild and angry Londoners on the way to his execution (1725) |
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