Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts
By Larissa Tracy (Editor), Bridgette Slavin (Contribution by), Jay Paul Gates (Contribution by), Pinchas Roth (Contribution by), Jolanta Komornicka (Contribution by), Larissa Tracy (Contribution by), Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar (Contribution by), Anne Latowsky (Contribution by), Lucas Wood (Contribution by), Dwayne Coleman (Contribution by), Matthew Lubin (Contribution by), Emily Hutchison (Contribution by), Andrew McKenzie-McHarg (Contribution by), Jeffrey Doolittle (Contribution by), Thomas Gobbitt (Contribution by), G. Koolemans Beynen (Contribution by), Carmel Ferragud (Contribution by), Patricia Turning (Contribution by), Dianne Berg (Contribution by), Ben Parsons (Contribution by), Hannah Skoda (Contribution by)
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By Larissa Tracy (Editor), Bridgette Slavin (Contribution by), Jay Paul Gates (Contribution by), Pinchas Roth (Contribution by), Jolanta Komornicka (Contribution by), Larissa Tracy (Contribution by), Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar (Contribution by), Anne Latowsky (Contribution by), Lucas Wood (Contribution by), Dwayne Coleman (Contribution by), Matthew Lubin (Contribution by), Emily Hutchison (Contribution by), Andrew McKenzie-McHarg (Contribution by), Jeffrey Doolittle (Contribution by), Thomas Gobbitt (Contribution by), G. Koolemans Beynen (Contribution by), Carmel Ferragud (Contribution by), Patricia Turning (Contribution by), Dianne Berg (Contribution by), Ben Parsons (Contribution by), Hannah Skoda (Contribution by)
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Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies viewed murder and dealt with murderers.
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 jus...
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 jus...






















