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.
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.
Introduction: Murder Most Foul Larissa Tracy Secret Killing and Murder by Magic in the Law of Adoman Bridgette Slavin Discursive Murders: The St. Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Mordor Jay Paul Gates Mourning Murderers in Medieval Jewish Law Pinchas Roth Treacherous Murder: Language and Meaning in French Murder Trials Jolanta Komornicka 'Mordre wol out': Murder and Justice in Chaucer Larissa Tracy Bringing Murder to Light: Death, Publishing and Performance in Icelandic Sagas Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar 'I Think This Bacon is Wearing Shoes': Comedy and Murder in the Old French Fabliaux Anne Latowsky 'Chevaliers ocirre': Manslaughter, Morality and Meaning in the Queste del Saint Graal Lucas Wood Murder, Manslaughter and Reputation: Killing in Malory's Le Morte Darthur Dwayne Coleman Poisoning as a Means of State Assassination in Early Modern Venice Matthew Lubin Defamation, a Murder More Foul?: The 'Second Murder' of Louis, Duke of Orleans (d.1407) Reconsidered Emily Hutchison 'A general murther, an universal slaughter': Strategies of Anti Jesuit Defamation in Reporting Assassination in the Early Modern Period Andrew McKenzie McHarg Negotiating Murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours Jeffrey Doolittle Poisoning, Killing and Murder in the Edictus Rothari Thomas Gobbitt Murder, Foul and Fair, in Shota Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther Skin G. Koolemans Beynen A Multiple Poisoning in the City of Valencia: Sanxo Calbo's Crime (1442) Carmel Ferragud A Case of Mariticide in Late Medieval France Patricia Turning Monstrous Un Making: Maternal Infanticide and Female Agency in Early Modern England Dianne Berg Imps of Hell: Young People, Murder and the Early English Press Ben Parsons Conclusion Hannah Skoda Select Bibliography
Introduction: Murder Most Foul Larissa Tracy Secret Killing and Murder by Magic in the Law of Adoman Bridgette Slavin Discursive Murders: The St. Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Mordor Jay Paul Gates Mourning Murderers in Medieval Jewish Law Pinchas Roth Treacherous Murder: Language and Meaning in French Murder Trials Jolanta Komornicka 'Mordre wol out': Murder and Justice in Chaucer Larissa Tracy Bringing Murder to Light: Death, Publishing and Performance in Icelandic Sagas Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar 'I Think This Bacon is Wearing Shoes': Comedy and Murder in the Old French Fabliaux Anne Latowsky 'Chevaliers ocirre': Manslaughter, Morality and Meaning in the Queste del Saint Graal Lucas Wood Murder, Manslaughter and Reputation: Killing in Malory's Le Morte Darthur Dwayne Coleman Poisoning as a Means of State Assassination in Early Modern Venice Matthew Lubin Defamation, a Murder More Foul?: The 'Second Murder' of Louis, Duke of Orleans (d.1407) Reconsidered Emily Hutchison 'A general murther, an universal slaughter': Strategies of Anti Jesuit Defamation in Reporting Assassination in the Early Modern Period Andrew McKenzie McHarg Negotiating Murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours Jeffrey Doolittle Poisoning, Killing and Murder in the Edictus Rothari Thomas Gobbitt Murder, Foul and Fair, in Shota Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther Skin G. Koolemans Beynen A Multiple Poisoning in the City of Valencia: Sanxo Calbo's Crime (1442) Carmel Ferragud A Case of Mariticide in Late Medieval France Patricia Turning Monstrous Un Making: Maternal Infanticide and Female Agency in Early Modern England Dianne Berg Imps of Hell: Young People, Murder and the Early English Press Ben Parsons Conclusion Hannah Skoda Select Bibliography
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