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Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Sunday, January 23, 1390 was a day that Ralph Peioun of Wotton (Lincs.) and his wife most likely never forgot. On this day, their one-year-old son, Richard, presumably curious and headstrong like most young toddlers his age, made an unfortunate choice of playthings when he picked up a pair of shears and wounded himself in the throat, a fatal injury leading to his death later that same day.

Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

DOI: 10.1215/10829636-2005-002

Author: Sara M. Butler

Language: English

Topic: Medieval and Early Modern Justice

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2064040101

FWCI: 14.24

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Cited by: 33

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