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

by K.J. Kesselring

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, USA
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"