Making Manslaughter: Process, Punishment and Restitution in Württemberg and Zurich, 1376-1700

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-21821-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 634 g

Reihe: Medieval Law and Its Practice

In Making Manslaughter, Susanne Pohl-Zucker offers parallel studies that trace the legal settlement of homicide in the duchy of Württemberg and the imperial city of Zurich between 1376 and 1700. Killings committed by men during disputes were frequently resolved by extrajudicial agreements during the late Middle Ages. Around 1500, customary strategies of dispute settlement were integrated and modified within contexts of increasing legal centralization and, in Württemberg, negotiated with the growing influence of the ius commune. Legal practice was characterized by indeterminacy and openness: categories and procedures proved flexible, and judicial outcomes were produced by governmental policies aimed at the re-establishment of peace as well as by the strategies and goals of all disputants involved in a homicide case.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Pohl-Zucker, Susanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Susanne Pohl Zucker, Ph.D (1997), University of Michigan, is an independent historian living near Mainz (Germany). She has published articles on late medieval and early modern criminal justice in Württemberg and Zurich.