TY - BOOK ID - 46199335 TI - Medieval and early modern murder : legal, literary and historical contexts PY - 2018 SN - 9781783273119 1783273119 9781787442764 1787442764 PB - Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, DB - UniCat KW - Murder KW - Criminal homicide KW - Killing (Murder) KW - Homicide KW - History KW - 343.9 KW - 34 <09> KW - 930.86.01 KW - 930.86.01 Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen KW - Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen KW - 34 <09> Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) KW - Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) KW - 343.9 Criminologie --(algemeen) KW - Criminologie --(algemeen) KW - Murder. KW - To 1699. KW - Meurtre KW - Crime KW - Crimes KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Justice pénale KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Social aspects KW - Aspect social KW - Sociological aspects KW - Aspect sociologique KW - Administration KW - Droit pénal KW - Histoire. KW - To 1699 KW - Crime. KW - Early Modern Murder. KW - Historical Contexts. KW - Homicide. KW - Interpretation. KW - Legal Contexts. KW - Literary Contexts. KW - Medieval Manuscripts. KW - Medieval Murder. KW - Society. KW - medieval. KW - Droit pénal UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46199335 AB - 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 the ways 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 ER -