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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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press,
March 2019
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Oxford scholarship online
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| Sujets: | Homicide Homicide ; England ; History England Tötung Geschichte 1480-1680 |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 185 Seiten) |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description: | This edition previously issued in print: 2019. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 8, 2019) |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 185 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9780191873195 0191873195 9780198835622 0198835620 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198835622.001.0001 |