Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Murder Most Foul
- I Murder on Trial: Justice, Law and Society
- 1 Secret Killing and Murder by Magic in the Law of Adomnán
- 2 Discursive Murders: The St Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Morðor
- 3 Mourning Murderers in Medieval Jewish Law
- 4 Treacherous Murder: Language and Meaning in French Murder Trials
- 5 ‘Mordre wol out’: Murder and Justice in Chaucer
- II The Public Hermeneutics of Murder: Interpretation and Context
- III Murder in the Community: Gender, Youth And Family
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
2 - Discursive Murders: The St Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Morðor
from I - Murder on Trial: Justice, Law and Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Murder Most Foul
- I Murder on Trial: Justice, Law and Society
- 1 Secret Killing and Murder by Magic in the Law of Adomnán
- 2 Discursive Murders: The St Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Morðor
- 3 Mourning Murderers in Medieval Jewish Law
- 4 Treacherous Murder: Language and Meaning in French Murder Trials
- 5 ‘Mordre wol out’: Murder and Justice in Chaucer
- II The Public Hermeneutics of Murder: Interpretation and Context
- III Murder in the Community: Gender, Youth And Family
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- Medieval and Early Modern MurderLegal, Literary and Historical Contexts, pp. 47 - 76Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018
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