Author: K. J. Kesselring File Type: pdf Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the latter, and two, a significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other. Making Murder Public explores connections between these two changes. It demonstrates the value in distinguishing between murder and manslaughter, or at least in seeing how that distinction came to matter in a period which also witnessed dramatic drops in the occurrence of homicidal violence. Focused on the politics of murder, Making Murder Public examines how homicide became more effectively criminalized between 1480 and 1680, with chapters devoted to coroners inquests,appeals and private compensation, duels and private vengeance, and print and public punishment. The English had begun moving away from treating homicide as an offence subject to private settlements or vengeance long before other Europeans, at least from the twelfth century. What happened in the early modern period was,in some ways, a continuation of processes long underway, but intensified and refocused by developments from 1480 to 1680. Making Murder Public argues that homicide became fully public in these years, with killings seen to violate a kings peace that people increasingly conflated with or subordinated to the public peace or public justice.About the Author K.J. Kesselring is Professor of History at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of a series of articles and essays on homicide and criminal forfeiture, and books on Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State and The Northern Rebellion of 1569. She has also edited or co-edited collections on The Trial of Charles I, Married Women and the Law Coverture in England and the Common Law World (with Tim Stretton), and Crossing Borders Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain (with Sara M. Butler).

Author: George Rawlinson File Type: epub Assyria was a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant. It existed as a state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC in the form of the Assur city-state, until its collapse between 612 BC and 609 BC. This book will introduce you with great Assyrian emperors and their conquests of Anatolia, Ancient Iran, Levant and Babylonia. This history book covers also other segments of Assyrian life such as the language and writing, Assyrian manners and customs and architecture and other arts. Contents Description of the Country Climate and Productions The People The Capital Language and Writing Architecture and Other Arts Manners and Customs. Religion Chronology and History