HIST 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Village Gate, Pickpocketing, Survivalism
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Not just a law course and a series of statutes. Enlightenment, philosophy, arts, literature, which changed people"s perception of humanity: early criminal law: we"re dealing with a mindset that was driven by a religious extremism. Man was concerned with the next life, life was not valuable, life was subsumed by religious connection/life of the manor/etc. We move from that around the 18th century hogarth (engraver in. England) made prints about life in england (boy run over by a cart, lamb being slaughtered, prostitutes drinking gin, etc. The notion that man could rise to something more, there were great things that people culd accomplish. Henry viii"s reign: 70,000 english people executed. You wandered around the village gate and saw tons of corpses. What was the law: how the law evolved from the time of robin hood, the crusades, the arrival of the normans. 1066 ad: most of english law and english language was really.