A historically reconstructed detective story, The Justice and
the Mare's Ale is a case study brought alive by documents,
through which readers can explore the way in which law worked in
practice in late - seventeenth century northern England and the
ways in which criminal law and ordinary life intersected during
that period.
?It is as gripping as a detective story. Actually Alan
Macfarlane's new book is a true detective story, set in the
Westmorland in the 1680's.' New Society
?It is an extraordinary story very well told, largely in
the words of the original depositions and other papers in the
public records and in the extensive Fleming archive.' London Review
of Books
- ISBN10 0631126813
- ISBN13 9780631126812
- Publish Date 26 March 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 July 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 252
- Language English