TY - BOOK ID - 77869604 TI - The murder of Mr. Grebell : madness and civility in an English town PY - 2003 SN - 1281722189 9786611722180 0300130198 9780300130195 9781281722188 9780300099850 0300099851 6611722181 PB - New Haven : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Murder KW - Criminal homicide KW - Killing (Murder) KW - Homicide KW - Breads, John, KW - Grebell, Allen, KW - Criminal law. Criminal procedure KW - Grebell, Allen KW - Breads, John KW - Breads, John, -- d. 1743.. KW - Grebell, Allen, -- d. 1743.. KW - Murder -- England -- Rye -- Case studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77869604 AB - On a winter night in 1743, a local magistrate was stabbed to death in the churchyard of Rye by an angry butcher. Why did this gruesome crime happen? What does it reveal about the political, economic, and cultural patterns that existed in this small English port town? To answer these questions, this fascinating book takes us back to the mid-sixteenth century, when religious and social tensions began to fragment the quiet town of Rye and led to witch hunts, riots, and violent political confrontations. Paul Monod examines events over the course of the next two centuries, tracing the town's transition as it moved from narrowly focused Reformation norms to the more expansive ideas of the emerging commercial society. In the process, relations among the town's inhabitants were fundamentally altered. The history of Rye mirrored that of the whole nation, and it gives us an intriguing new perspective on England in the early modern period. ER -