TY  - GEN
T1  - Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England
T2  - Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
A1  - Billingham, Josephine
LA  - English
PP  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1122913502
AB  - 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.
OP  - 351
CN  - HV6541.G7 B55 2019
SN  - 9789048538164
SN  - 9048538165
SN  - 9462986797
SN  - 9789462986794
KW  - Infanticide : England : History.
KW  - Infanticide in literature.
KW  - Infanticide : Angleterre : Histoire.
KW  - Infanticide dans la littérature.
KW  - Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800.
KW  - Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Infanticide
KW  - England
KW  - Infanticide, liminality, pregnancy, childbirth, punishment.
KW  - History
ER  -