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Violence, Legal Culture and Social Control: The Records of Scotland’s Justiciary Court, 1493–1558
This dissertation investigates the prosecution of lethal and near-lethal violence in Scotland’s highest central criminal jurisdiction—the justiciary court—during the first half of the sixteenth century. It uses trial entries preserved in the court books to demonstrate that the 1530s and 1540s were …