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Darrera modificació: 2020-06-23
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Tracy, Larissa (ed.), Medieval & Early Modern Murder, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2018, 486 pp.
- Resum
- 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, definitions of murder, manslaughter and justified or unjustified homicide depend largely on the legal terminology and the laws of the society. Much like modern nations, medieval societies treated murder and murderers differently based on their social standing, the social standing of the victim, their gender, their mental capacity for understanding their crime, and intent, motive and means.
The three parts of this volume explore different aspects of this crime in the Middle Ages. The first provides the legal template for reading cases of murder in a variety of sources. The second examines the public hermeneutics of murder, especially the ways in which medieval societies interpreted and contextualised their textual traditions: Icelandic sagas, Old French fabliaux, Arthuriana and accounts of assassination. Finally, the third part focuses on the effects of murder within the community: murder as a social ill, especially in killing kin.
Sumari:
* Introduction: Murder Most Foul
-- I. MURDER ON TRIAL: JUSTICE, LAW AND SOCIETY
* 1. Bridgette Slavin / Killing and Murder by Magic in the Law of Adomnán · 19
* 2. Jay Paul Gates / Discursive Murders: The St Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Morðor · 47
* 3. Pinchas Roth / Mourning Murderers in Medieval Jewish Law · 77
* 4. Jolanta Komornicka / Treacherous Murder: Language and Meaning in French Murder Trials · 96
* 5. Larissa Tracy / 'Mordre wol out': Murder and Justice in Chaucer · 115
-- II. THE PUBLIC HERMENEUTICS OF MURDER: INTERPRETATION AND CONTEXT
* 6. Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar / Bringing Murder to Light: Death, Publishing and Performance in Icelandic Sagas · 139
* 7. Anne Latowsky / 'I Think This Bacon is Wearing Shoes': Comedy and Murder in the Old French Fabliaux · 159
* 8. Lucas Wood / 'Chevaliers ocirre': Manslaughter, Morality and Meaning in the Queste del Saint Graal · 179
* 9. Dwayne Coleman / Murder, Manslaughter and Reputation: Killing in Malory's Le Morte Darthur · 206
* 10. Matthew Lubin / Poisoning as a Means of State Assassination in Early Modern Venice · 227
* 11. Emily Hutchison / Defamation, a Murder More Foul?: The 'Second Murder' of Louis, Duke of Orleans [d. 1407] Reconsidered · 254
* 12. Andrew McKenzie-McHarg / 'A general murther, an universal slaughter': Strategies of Anti-Jesuit Defamation in Reporting Assassination in the Early Modern Period · 281
-- III. MURDER IN THE COMMUNITY: GENDER, YOUTH AND FAMILY
* 13. Jeffrey Doolittle / Negotiating Murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours · 311
* 14. Thomas Gobbitt / Poisoning, Killing and Murder in the Edictus Rothari · 333
* 15. G. Koolemans Beynen / Murder, Foul and Fair, in Shota Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther Skin · 350
* 16. Ferragud (2018), "A Multiple Poisoning in the City ..."
* 17. Patricia Turning / A Case of Mariticide in Late Medieval France · 395
* 18. Dianne Berg / Monstrous Un-Making: Maternal Infanticide and Female Agency in Early Modern England · 417
* 19. Ben Parsons / Imps of Hell: Young People, Murder and the Early English Press · 456
* Hannah Skoda / Conclusion · 468
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