| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 486 pages) |
| Contents |
Secret killing and murder by magic in the law of Adomnán / Bridgette Slavin -- Discursive murders: the St. Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Mordor / Jay Paul Gates -- Mourning murderers in medieval Jewish law / Pinchas Roth -- Treacherous murder: language and meaning in French murder trials / Jolanta N. Komornicka -- 'Mordre wol out': murder and justice in Chaucer / Larissa Tracy -- Bringing murder to light: death, publishing and performance in Icelandic sagas / Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar -- 'I think this bacon is wearing shoes': comedy and murder in the old French fabliaux / Anne Latowsky -- 'Chevaliers ocirre': manslaughter, and reputation: killing in Malory's Le Morte Darthur / Dwayne C. Coleman -- Poisoning as a means of state assassination in early modern Venice / Matthew Lubin -- Defamation, a murder more foul?: The 'second murder' of Louis, Duke of Orleans (d. 1407) reconsidered / Emily J. Hutchison -- 'A general murther, a universal slaughter': strategies of anti-Jesuit defamation in reporting assassination in the early modern period / Andrew McKenzie-McHarg -- Negotiating murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours / Jeffrey Doolittle -- Poisoning, killing and murder in the Edictus Rothari / Thomas Gobbitt -- Murder, foul and fair, in Shota Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther Skin / G. Koolemans Beynen -- A multiple poisoning in the city of Valencia: Sanxo Calbó's crime (1442) / Carmel Ferragud -- A case of mariticide in late medieval France / Patricia Turning -- Monstrous un-making: maternal infanticide and female agency in early modern England / Dianne Berg -- Imps of hell: young people, murder and the early English press / Ben Parsons |
| Summary |
5208 "Murder - the perpetrators, victims, methods and motives - has been the subject of law, literature, chronicles and religion, often crossing genres and disciplines and employing multiple modes of expression and interpretation. As the chapters in this volume demonstrate, definitions of murder, manslaughter and justified or unjustified homicide depend largely on the legal terminology and the laws of the society. Much like modern nations, medieval societies treated murder and murderers differently based on their social standing, the social standing of the victim, their gender, their mental capacity for understanding their crime, and intent, motive and means. The three parts of this volume explore different aspects of this crime in the Middle Ages. The first provides the legal template for reading cases of murder in a variety of sources. The second examines the public hermeneutics of murder, especially the ways in which medieval societies interpreted and contextualised their textual traditions: Icelandic sagas, Old French fabliaux, Arthuriana and accounts of assassination. Finally, the third part focuses on the effects of murder within the community: murder as a social ill, especially in killing kin."--Back cover |
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Crime |
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Early Modern Murder |
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Historical Contexts |
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Homicide |
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Interpretation |
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Legal Contexts |
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Literary Contexts |
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Medieval Manuscripts |
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Medieval Murder |
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Society |
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medieval |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-481) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Murder -- History -- To 1500
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Murder -- History -- 16th century
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Murder -- History -- 17th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Murder
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tracy, Larissa, 1974- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787442764 |
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1787442764 |
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