Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680 by K. J. Kesselring
Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680

K. J. Kesselring

Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680

K. J. Kesselring

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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 punishmen...

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