Correction to:

M. Korpiola et al. (ed.), Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies , World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96863-6_1

The original version of chapter 1, “Introduction” was previously published with exclusive rights reserved by the Publisher. It has now been converted to open access retrospectively under a CC BY 4.0 license and the copyright holder updated to ‘The Author(s)’. The book has also been updated with this change.