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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Auteur principal:	Kesselring, K. J. 1972- (Auteur)
Format:	Ebook
Langue:	English
Publié:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, March 2019
Titres liés à la collection:	Oxford scholarship online
Sujets:	Homicide Homicide ; England ; History England Tötung Geschichte 1480-1680
Description matérielle:	1 Online-Ressource (vi, 185 Seiten)