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The Devil's Altar? Crime and the Early Modern Public House
Author(s) -
Kümin Beat
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.071
Subject(s) - altar , order (exchange) , criminology , law , psychology , history , sociology , political science , ancient history , business , finance
Was the early modern public house really such a dangerous place, as Puritan preachers (and many historians) suggested? This article discusses offences by publicans and patrons. It argues that the evidence for crime needs to be carefully contextualised and that taverns could stabilise as well as threaten the social order.