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

"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, ma...

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Other Authors: Tracy, Larissa, 1974- (Editor)
Other title:Murder : legal, literary and historical contexts.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Murder on trial: justice, law and society.
  • II. The public hermeneutics of murder: interpretation and context.
  • III. Murder in the community: gender, youth and family.