ISBN:
9789462986794
Language:
English
Pages:
349 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern world
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Dissertation note:
Dissertation
DDC:
304.6680941
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1700
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Infanticide History
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Kindestötung
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England
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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England
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Kindestötung
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Geschichte 1500-1700
Abstract:
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 was hawked, to the playhouses where the crime was dramatized, and the courts where it was tried and punished. Using a regional microstudy of coroners' inquests and churchwardens' presentments, coupled with theories of liminality, marginality and rites of passage, it reveals complex and contradictory attitudes to infants, women and the crime. As well as considering unwed women, the most common perpetrators of infanticide, the study shows that married women, men and the local community were also culpable, and the many reasons for this. Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England is set in its European and historical contexts, revealing surprising continuities across time.
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