James "Jim" A. Sharpe, FRHS (born Oct. 9, 1946), is

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of early modern history at the

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. He is a specialist in

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, and

crime and punishment ''Crime and Punishment'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Преступление и наказание, Prestupléniye i nakazániye, prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. ...

, in

early modern England Early Modern Britain (c.16th−18th centuries) — the Early Modern period in the history of the British Isles The Kingdom of Great Britain The Kingdom of Great Britain (officially Great Britain) was a Sovereign state, sovereign country ...

. Sharpe earned his BA and DPhil at the University of Oxford and joined the University of York as a lecturer in 1973. He became professor in 1997 and retired in 2016.

Selected publications

* ''Crime in Seventeenth-Century England''.

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/Past and Present Publications, 1983. * ''"William Holcroft his Booke": Office Holding in Late Stuart Essex''.

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, Essex Historical Documents, 2, 1986. * ''Crime and the Law in English Satirical Prints 1600 - 1832''. Chadwyck - Healey, 1986. * ''Judicial Punishment in England''.

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, 1990. * ''Early Modern England: a Social History 1550 - 1760''. Edward Arnold, 1987: 2nd edn., 1997. * ''Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England 1550 - 1750''.

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, 1996. * ''Crime in Early Modern England 1550 - 1750''. Longman, 1984: 2nd edn., 1998. * ''The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A horrible and true story of deception, witchcraft, murder and the King of England''. Profile Books, 2000. * ''Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman''. Profile Books, 2004. * ''A Fiery & Furious People''. Random House, 2016.''A Fiery & Furious People: A History of Violence in England'' James Sharpe.
Penguin Books. Retrieved 8 July 2017.

References

1946 births Living people Academics of the University of York Alumni of the University of Oxford Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Historians of England Historians of witchcraft {{UK-historian-stub