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| Cynthia B. Herrup, Professor Emeritus
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| PhD | Northwestern University | 1982 |
| MA | Loyola University | 1975 |
| BSJ | Northwestern University | 1972 |
- Research 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.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Christina Ramos
- Joanna Kuchinski
- Jacob W. Selwood,
- Philippe Rosenberg
- Colleen Seguin
- Amy Froide
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- The punishing pardon: some thoughts on the origins of penal transportation,
in Penal practice and culture 1500-1900: punishing the English, edited by Simon Devereux and Paul Griffiths
(2004),
pp. 121-138, Macmillan
- Mervin Touchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven,
in New Dictionary of National Biography
(2004)
- Review: Lorna Hutson and Victoria Kahn, eds., Rhetoric and law in early modern Europe,
Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 40 no. 3
(2003),
pp. 337-340
- "When Mercy Seasons Justice": Pardons and Culture in Early Modern England
(forthcoming, 2007) (under contract to Cambridge University Press.)
- Re-reading politics,
Shakespeare Studies, vol. 31
(2003),
pp. 288-95
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