Josephine Billingham

Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of society's darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the drama, pamphlets and broadside ballads of the early modern period. It takes the reader on a journey through the streets and taverns where street literature was hawked, to the playhouses where the crime was dramatized, and the courts where it was tried and punished. Using a regional microstudy of coroners' inquests and churchwardens' presentments, coupled with theories of liminality, marginality and rites of passage, it reveals complex and contradictory attitudes to infants, women and the crime. As well as considering unwed women, the most common perpetrators of infanticide, the study shows that married women, men and the local community were also culpable, and the many reasons for this. Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England is set in its European and historical contexts, revealing surprising continuities across time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040792520
• Artikelnr.: 75563751

Autorenporträt

Josephine Billingham has a PhD in English Literature from UCL. She is an independent scholar with particular interest in liminality, infant death, literature in its historical context, and the interplay between historical and literary sources.

Inhaltsangabe

Epigram
Author's notes
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Losses
Lacunae and Liminality Chapter 2: European and Medieval Contexts of Infanticide Chapter 3: The liminal child and mother Chapter 4: Love
Law and Liminality Chapter 5: Constructing Outsiders
Constructing Killers Chapter 6: Not the Usual Suspects: Communities and Accomplices Chapter 7: Not the Usual Suspects: Married Women Chapter 8: Not the Usual Suspects: Men Chapter 9: Interlude: Infanticide 1700-1950 Chapter 10: Epilogue: Echoes of the Past
Appendix 1: The 1624 Infanticide Act
Appendix 2: Note on Sussex Coroners' inquests
Appendix 3: Sussex Cases of Violent
Unnatural
Unexplained Infant Death 1547-1686: Complete list of cases from archival and other sources
Appendix 4: Sussex Infant Deaths Involving Water
Appendix 5: Sussex Infant Deaths Involving Throwing
Appendix 6: Sussex Infant Deaths Involving Bloodshed or Extreme Violence
Appendix 7: Sussex Infant Deaths Showing Direct Involvement of Men
Index.