TY  - JOUR
TI  - Prosecuting theft in Old Regime France, c.1540–c.1700
AU  - Hamilton, Tom
PY  - 2023
PB  - Cambridge University Press (CUP)
LA  - eng
AB  - AbstractThis article analyses a significant sample of theft cases tried in the appellate courts of the parlements of Paris and Toulouse from the mid-sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century. Despite some historians' claims that theft was typically overlooked or settled informally, and that property crime only became a major social problem because of the rise of industrial capitalism in the eighteenth century, this article argues that French subjects did take theft seriously in this period, even if that meant subjecting it to ridicule in cultural productions such as Molière's celebrated play The Miser.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416023000334
DO  - 10.1017/s0268416023000334
T2  - Continuity and change: a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies
VL  - 38
IS  - 3
SN  - 1469-218X
SN  - 0268-4160
SP  - 283-312
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/cr-10.1017/s0268416023000334
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -