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| Research Interests for Cynthia B. HerrupResearch Interests:I am interested in the relationship between law (particularly criminal law) and culture. In general, I try to elucidate the ways in which legal forms and social force are in constant dialogue. My particular focus is on England in the seventeenth century. My first book was a study of how communities without lawyers make legal decisions; my second a study of a notorious trial as the focus of an exploration of law's reaction to tensions between genders and generations; my new project investigates the cultural meaning of pardons and mercy. I am also interested in the history of sexuality and in the history of the early modern Atlantic world.
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