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Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680
Making Murder Public explores the emergence, in the sixteenth century, of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter and the significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other.
| Author(s) | By K.J. Kesselring (Professor of History, Professor of History, Dalhousie University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 208 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 10 Feb 2022 |
| Availability | Available |
Making Murder Public explores the emergence, in the sixteenth century, of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter and the significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other.
Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Conventions 1: Introduction 2: 'In Corona Populi': Early Modern Coroners and their Inquests 3: 'An Image of Deadly Feud': Recompense, Revenge, and the Appeal of Homicide 4: 'That Saucy Paradox': The Politics of Duel
K.J. Kesselring is Professor of History at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of a series of articles and essays on homicide and criminal forfeiture, and books on Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State and The Northern Rebellion
