Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England / / Josephine Billingham.
Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of society’s darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the drama, pamphlets and broadside ballads of the early modern period. It takes the reader on a journey through the streets and taverns where street literature...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s notes
- 1. Losses, Lacunae and Liminality
- 2. European and Medieval Contexts of Infanticide
- 3. The Liminal Child and Mother
- 4. Love, Law and Liminality
- 5. Constructing Outsiders, Constructing Killers
- 6. Not the Usual Suspects: Communities and Accomplices
- 7. Not the Usual Suspects: Married Women
- 8. Not the Usual Suspects: Men
- 9. Interlude: Infanticide 1700–1950
- 10. Epilogue: Echoes of the Past
- Appendix 1. The 1624 Infanticide Act
- Appendix 2. Note on Sussex Coroners’ inquests
- Appendix 3. Sussex Cases of Violent, Unnatural, Unexplained Infant Death 1547–1686
- Appendix 4. Sussex Infant Deaths Involving Water
- Appendix 5. Sussex Infant Deaths Involving Throwing
- Appendix 6. Sussex Infant Deaths Involving Bloodshed or Extreme Violence
- Appendix 7 Sussex Infant Deaths Showing Direct Involvement of Men
- Index