Daniel Beaver is Associate Professor at the Department of History, Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690 (1998).
'Hunting and the Politics of Violence looks likely to earn a place on postgraduate reading lists and prompt further research. Readers will look at the royal forests with a heightened awareness of their distinct law, culture, and experience, as well as an increased awareness of the significant place that hunting continued to play in visions of English society.' James Robertson, H-Law