Manners, Customs and Dress during the Middles Ages and during the Renaissance Period
A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to other parts of Europe, including chapters on private life, food, hunting, games and pastimes, costume, privileges and rights, justice, commerce, finance, and punishments.
Men of Blood - Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressive legal development called forth strong resistance, not only from violent men themselves but, from others who drew upon discourses of democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to establish sympathy with 'men of blood'.
Attorney Ben Kincaid plunges into the tumultuous case of an environmental activist charged with killing a lumberjack in the small logging town of Magic Valley.
Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid trades his law practice for life as a jazz musician, only to wind up defending a nightclub owner and ex-convict accused of murdering legendary singer "Cajun Lily" Campbell.
Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid takes on his sixth case, that of a former football hero who leads police on a car chase after his wife and children are found murdered.
