Making manslaughter : process, punishment, and restitution in Wurttemberg and Zurich, 1376-1700 / by Susanne Pohl-Zucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pohl-Zucker, Susanne, author.

Series:

Medieval law and its practice ; Volume 22 ; Volume 22.

Medieval Law and Its Practice, 1873-8176 ; Volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manslaughter--Law and legislation--Germany--Württemberg--History.

Manslaughter.

Manslaughter--Law and legislation--Switzerland--Zurich--History.

Reparation (Criminal justice)--Germany--Württemberg--History.

Reparation (Criminal justice).

Reparation (Criminal justice)--Switzerland--Zurich--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Restitution: Strategies of Compensation and Resolution in Early Modern Württemberg

Prosecution: Manslaughter and the superfacto Procedure

Legitimation: Legal Parameters and Expert Knowledge in Württemberg Homicide Trials

Accusations and Mediations: The Prosecution of Manslaughter in Zurich

Justification: Defensive Strategies in Zurich

Bibliography

Index of Names and Subjects.

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Michigan, 1997), issued under title: Negotiating honor and state authority : the prosecution and punishment of manslaughter in Zurich and Southwest Germany, 1350-1600.

Discusses "duchy of Württemberg and the imperial city of Zurich"--ECIP data view.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34471-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004344716 DOI