The Madman and the Churchrobber

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Peacey unearths and reconstructs a strange early modern dispute over a small estate in Gloucestershire that was contested over a period of 160 years, becoming acrimonious and viole nt. The microhistory represents the common forms of litigation which shed light upon political culture and ideological conflict around the time of the English Revolution. Show more