Pieter Spierenburg. A Personal Appreciation

Abstract

I first met Pieter Spierenburg at the Social History Society of the UK conference in Birmingham in January 1977, where he was giving a presentation along with Herman Diederiks and (if I remember correctly) Sjoerd Faber. Also present was Tim Curtis, at that time the other British scholar researching into crime in early modern England. Tim and I had heard vaguely of the Dutch Group for Criminal Justice History, and were delighted to make contact with three Dutch scholars whose interests and app...