Medieval and Early Modern Murder – Legal, Literary and Historical Contexts

Larissa Tracy

Introduction: Murder Most Foul Secret Killing and Murder by Magic in the Law of Adomnán - Bridgette Slavin Discursive Murders: The St Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Morðor - Jay Paul Gates Mourning Murderers in Medieval Jewish Law - Pinchas Roth Treacherous Murder: Language and Meaning in French Murder Trials - Jolanta Komornicka 'Mordre wol out': Murder and Justice in Chaucer - Larissa Tracy Bringing Murder to Light: Death, Publishing and Performance in Icelandic Sagas - Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar 'I Think This Bacon is Wearing Shoes': Comedy and Murder in the Old French Fabliaux - Anne Latowsky 'Chevaliers ocirre': Manslaughter, Morality and Meaning in the Queste del Saint Graal - Lucas Wood Murder, Manslaughter and Reputation: Killing in Malory's Le Morte Darthur - Dwayne Coleman Poisoning as a Means of State Assassination in Early Modern Venice - Matthew Lubin Defamation, a Murder More Foul?: The 'Second Murder' of Louis, Duke of Orleans [d. 1407] Reconsidered - Emily Hutchison 'A general murther, an universal slaughter': Strategies of Anti-Jesuit Defamation in Reporting Assassination in the Early Modern Period - Andrew McKenzie-McHarg Negotiating Murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours - Jeffrey Doolittle Poisoning, Killing and Murder in the Edictus Rothari - Thomas Gobbitt Murder, Foul and Fair, in Shota Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther Skin - G. Koolemans Beynen A Multiple Poisoning in the City of Valencia: Sanxo Calbó's Crime [1442] - Carmel Ferragud A Case of Mariticide in Late Medieval France - Patricia Turning Monstrous Un-Making: Maternal Infanticide and Female Agency in Early Modern England - Dianne Berg Imps of Hell: Young People, Murder and the Early English Press - Ben Parsons Conclusion - Hannah Skoda Select Bibliography