Suicide In The Middle Ages I by Alexander Murray
The Violent against Themselves
This first volume reconstructs the incidence and patterns of self-killing in medieval Europe by mining coroners’ rolls, legal and ecclesiastical records, chronicles, and literary sources. It weighs definitional problems and reporting biases while analyzing regional and temporal variation, methods, gender and age profiles, and seasonal rhythms. The outcome is a cautious, quantitative portrait that situates statistics within theological, legal, and communal contexts, showing both the apparent rarity of the act and the elusiveness of the evidence.
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- 1998
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- British
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- English
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