Medieval and early modern murder : legal, literary and historical contexts /

Medieval and early modern murder : legal, literary and historical contexts / edited by Larissa Tracy.

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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 murde...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Tracy, Larissa, 1974- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press, 2018.
Subjects:
To 1699
Murder > History > To 1500.
Murder > History > 16th century.
Murder > History > 17th century.
Murder.
History.
Table of 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.

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