Making murder public: homicide in early modern England, 1480-1680

Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the latter, and two, a significant r...

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Main Author: Kesselring, K. J. 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2019
Edition:First edition
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the latter, and two, a significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other. This text explores connections between these two changes. It demonstrates the value in distinguishing between murder and manslaughter, or at least in seeing how that distinction came to matter in a period which also witnessed dramatic drops in the occurrence of homicidal violence
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:vi, 185 Seiten
ISBN:9780198835622