Download or read book The Village in Court written by Regina Schulte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on archival records of prosecutions of the three most important rural types of crime before the penal courts of Upper Bavaria in the late nineteenth century - arson, infanticide, and poaching - this study in historical anthropology reveals the fabric of the village society: its norms, conflicts, and hidden meanings.