Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts

by Larissa Tracy

Book Overview

Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies viewed murder and dealt with murderers.

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783275928
• ISBN13: 9781783275922
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 6.1"