Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680
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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 reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other. Making Murder Public explores connections between these two changes. It...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198835620
ISBN13:9780198835622
Release Date:April 2019
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:196 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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