Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680

ISBN-13: 9780198835622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 208 str.

K. J. Kesselring

Opis

Making Murder Public explores the emergence, in the sixteenth century, of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter and the significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other.

Recenzje

Making Murder Public significantly advances our understanding of the making of a larger collective in England during the Early Modern period. It is far more than just a book about crime and should be read widely. It is also well written and richly documented. Samuel Clark, University of Western Ontario, Canadian Journal of History

O autorze

K.J. Kesselring is Professor of History at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of a series of articles and essays on homicide and criminal forfeiture, and books on Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State and The Northern Rebellion of 1569. She has also edited or co-edited collections on The Trial of Charles I, Married Women and the Law: Coverture in England and the Common Law World (with Tim Stretton), and Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain (with Sara M. Butler).