Dr Tom Hamilton tom.b.hamilton@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Prosecuting Theft under the Old Regime: France c.1540–c.1690
Hamilton, Tom
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Abstract
This article analyses a significant sample of theft cases tried in the appellate courts of the parlements of Paris and Toulouse from the mid-sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century. Despite some historians’ claims that theft was typically overlooked or settled informally, and that property crime only became a major social problem because of the rise of industrial capitalism in the eighteenth century, this article argues that French subjects did take theft seriously in this period, even if that meant subjecting it to ridicule in cultural productions such as Molière’s celebrated play The Miser.
Citation
Hamilton, T. (2024). Prosecuting Theft under the Old Regime: France c.1540–c.1690. Continuity and Change, 38(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416023000334
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 1, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 1, 2024 |
Publication Date | Apr 1, 2024 |
Deposit Date | Nov 15, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 2, 2024 |
Journal | Continuity and Change |
Print ISSN | 0268-4160 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-218X |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 38 |
Issue | 3 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416023000334 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1929002 |
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