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

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Pohl-Zucker, Susanne [author.]

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TextSeries: Medieval law and its practice ; Volume 22 ; Volume 22.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789004344716
9004344713

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making manslaughter.DDC classification:

345.43/4702525 23

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KK785.M35

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Restitution : strategies of compensation and resolution in early modern Wurttemberg -- Prosecution : manslaughter and the superfacto procedure -- Legitimation : legal parameters and expert knowledge in Wurttemberg -- Homicide trials -- Accusations and mediations : the prosecution of manslaughter in Zurich -- Justification : defensive strategies in Zurich.

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.

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Based on the 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.

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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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