Medieval and Early Modern Murder

Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity. Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity. Hannah Skoda is Fellow and Tutor in medieval history at St John's College, Oxford. She is also keeper of the textiles and silver at the college.

• Introduction: Murder Most Foul - Larissa TracySecret Killing and Murder by Magic in the Law of Adoman - Bridgette SlavinDiscursive Murders: The St. Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Mordor - Jay Paul GatesMourning Murderers in Medieval Jewish Law - Pinchas RothTreacherous Murder: Language and Meaning in French Murder Trials - Jolanta Komornicka'Mordre wol out': Murder and Justice in Chaucer - Larissa TracyBringing 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 WoodMurder, Manslaughter and Reputation: Killing in Malory's Le Morte Darthur - Dwayne ColemanPoisoning as a Means of State Assassination in Early Modern Venice - Matthew LubinDefamation, 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-McHargNegotiating Murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours - Jeffrey DoolittlePoisoning, Killing and Murder in the Edictus Rothari - Thomas GobbittMurder, Foul and Fair, in Shota Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther Skin - G. Koolemans BeynenA Multiple Poisoning in the City of Valencia: Sanxo Calbo's Crime (1442) - Carmel FerragudA Case of Mariticide in Late Medieval France - Patricia TurningMonstrous Un-Making: Maternal Infanticide and Female Agency in Early Modern England - Dianne BergImps of Hell: Young People, Murder and the Early English Press - Ben ParsonsConclusion - Hannah SkodaSelect Bibliography

Makes for fascinating reading.