{"product_id":"making-murder-public-homicide-in-early-modern-england-1480-1680-9780198835622","title":"Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680","description":"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\u003cbr\u003esignificant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Murder Public\u003c\/em\u003e explores connections between these two changes. It demonstrates the value in distinguishing between murder and manslaughter, or at least in seeing how that distinction came to matter in a period which also witnessed dramatic drops in the occurrence of homicidal violence. Focused\u003cbr\u003eon the 'politics of murder', \u003cem\u003eMaking Murder Public\u003c\/em\u003e examines how homicide became more effectively criminalized between 1480 and 1680, with chapters devoted to coroners' inquests, appeals and private compensation, duels and private vengeance, and print and public punishment. The English had begun\u003cbr\u003emoving away from treating homicide as an offence subject to private settlements or vengeance long before other Europeans, at least from the twelfth century. What happened in the early modern period was, in some ways, a continuation of processes long underway, but intensified and refocused by\u003cbr\u003edevelopments from 1480 to 1680. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Murder Public\u003c\/em\u003e argues that homicide became fully 'public' in these years, with killings seen to violate a 'king's peace' that people increasingly conflated with or subordinated to the 'public peace' or 'public justice.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e K. J. Kesselring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198835622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eK.J. Kesselring, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of History, Dalhousie University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eK.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 \u003cem\u003eMercy and Authority in the Tudor State\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Northern Rebellion of 1569\u003c\/em\u003e. She has also edited or co-edited collections on \u003cem\u003eThe Trial of Charles I, Married Women and the Law: Coverture in England and the Common Law World\u003c\/em\u003e (with Tim Stretton), and \u003cem\u003eCrossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain\u003c\/em\u003e (with Sara M. Butler).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40143905489011,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f5a79f8e-4835-4091-90e8-b5794a00e47a.jpg?v=1654608304","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/making-murder-public-homicide-in-early-modern-england-1480-1680-9780198835622","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}