Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England

AvJosephine Billingham

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Antal sidor:350
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041181408

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Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Josephine Billingham has a PhD in English Literature from UCL. She is an independent scholar with particular interest in liminality, infant death, literature in its historical context, and the interplay between historical and literary sources.

Innehållsförteckning

Epigram, Author's notes, List of Illustrations, Chapter 1: Losses, Lacunae and Liminality Chapter 2: European and Medieval Contexts of Infanticide Chapter 3: The liminal child and mother Chapter 4: Love, Law and Liminality Chapter 5: Constructing Outsiders, Constructing Killers Chapter 6: Not the Usual Suspects: Communities and Accomplices Chapter 7: Not the Usual Suspects: Married Women Chapter 8: Not the Usual Suspects: Men Chapter 9: Interlude: Infanticide 1700-1950 Chapter 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: Complete list of cases from archival and other sources, 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.