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Medieval and Early Modern Murder
Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts
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2018
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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 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 theways 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.
LARISSA TRACY is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University.
Contributors: Dianne Berg, G. Koolemans Beynen, Dwayne C. Coleman, Jeffrey Doolittle, Carmel Ferragud, Jay Paul Gates, Thomas Gobbitt, Emily J. Hutchison, Jolanta N. Komornicka, Anne Latowsky, Matthew Lubin, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Ben Parsons, Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar, Hannah Skoda, Bridgette Slavin, Larissa Tracy, Patricia Turning, Lucas Wood
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 theways 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.
LARISSA TRACY is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University.
Contributors: Dianne Berg, G. Koolemans Beynen, Dwayne C. Coleman, Jeffrey Doolittle, Carmel Ferragud, Jay Paul Gates, Thomas Gobbitt, Emily J. Hutchison, Jolanta N. Komornicka, Anne Latowsky, Matthew Lubin, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Ben Parsons, Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar, Hannah Skoda, Bridgette Slavin, Larissa Tracy, Patricia Turning, Lucas Wood
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Contributor: Larissa Tracy
Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity.
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Contributor: Larissa Tracy
Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity.
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Contributor: Hannah Skoda
Hannah Skoda is Fellow and Tutor in medieval history at St John's College, Oxford. She is also keeper of the textiles and silver at the college.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations and Tables
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Acknowledgements
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Contributors
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List of Abbreviations
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Introduction: Murder Most Foul
1 - I MURDER ON TRIAL: JUSTICE, LAW AND SOCIETY
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1 Secret Killing and Murder by Magic in the Law of Adomnán
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2 Discursive Murders: The St Brice’s Day Massacre, Beowulf and Morðor
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3 Mourning Murderers in Medieval Jewish Law
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4 Treacherous Murder: Language and Meaning in French Murder Trials
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5 ‘Mordre wol out’: Murder and Justice in Chaucer
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6 Bringing Murder to Light: Death, Publishing and Performance in Icelandic Sagas
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7 ‘I Think This Bacon is Wearing Shoes’: Comedy and Murder in the Old French Fabliaux
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8 ‘Chevaliers ocirre’: Manslaughter, Morality and Meaning in the Queste del Saint Graal
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9 Murder, Manslaughter and Reputation: Killing in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
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10 Poisoning as a Means of State Assassination in Early Modern Venice
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11 Defamation, a Murder More Foul?: The ‘Second Murder’ of Louis, Duke of Orleans (d. 1407) Reconsidered
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12 ‘A general murther, an universal slaughter’: Strategies of Anti-Jesuit Defamation in Reporting Assassination in the Early Modern Period
281 - III MURDER IN THE COMMUNITY: GENDER, YOUTH AND FAMILY
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13 Negotiating Murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours
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14 Poisoning, Killing and Murder in the Edictus Rothari
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15 Murder, Foul and Fair, in Shota Rustaveli’s The Man in the Panther Skin
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16 A Multiple Poisoning in the City of Valencia: Sanxo Calbó’s Crime (1442)
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17 A Case of Mariticide in Late Medieval France
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18 Monstrous Un-Making: Maternal Infanticide and Female Agency in Early Modern England
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19 Imps of Hell: Young People, Murder and the Early English Press
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Conclusion
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Select Bibliography
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Index
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