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Author:   Murray
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.768kg
ISBN:  

9780199553112

ISBN 10:   0199553114
Pages:   510
Publication Date:   18 December 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1: Introduction 2: The Secrecy of the Act How to Find Out. I: Chronicles 3: The Reticence of Chronicles 4: The Probing of Disgrace 5: The Reticence Broken. The Preoccupations of Local and House Chronicles How to Find Out. II: Legal Sources 6: Suicide and Judicial Records 7: Portraits from English Courts: Criminals, Debtors, and the Sick 8: Portraits from English Courts: `Insanity' and Some Optical Illusions 9: Portraits from French Courts 10: Portraits from Lettres de Rémission 11: Portraits from Courts in the Empire How to Find Out. III: Religious Sources 12: Man, Woman, and Child 13: The Enemy of Society 14: The Sick and Melancholy Towards Statistics 15: Towards Statistics: Absolute Numbers 16: Towards Statistics: The Person and the Act Appendix: A Register of Recorded Suicidal Incidents - I. Chronicles; II. Legal Sources; III. Religious Sources A Bibliography of Legal Sources Used in the Register Select Bibliography to Part I

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`Review from previous edition 'One of the most unusual features of this book is its expansiveness. I cannot think of another academic history monograph that gives so much space to the stories themselves' ' - Social History of Medicine `'Murray tells his stories with great verve and then mulls them over, bringing to bear all the tools of source analysis, but he is never afraid to offer a final opinion of his own. The result is immensely readable' ' - Social History of Medicine `'The years of effort that went into this task have paid rich dividends ... This volume provides us with by far the most detailed record of medieval suicide to date' ' - Medical History `'Alexander Murray is the author of Reason and Society in the Middle Ages (1978), an exemplary new history, which reinterprets medieval mentalities on a European scale. Suicide in the Middle Ages is a magnum opus which has been long awaited. It is projected as a trilogy, of which the volume reviewed here is the first ... compelling reading ... Searching for suicides has made Murray a pioneer in the comparative study of the legal records of medieval Europe. ' - ' M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary Supplement

One of the most unusual features of this book is its expansiveness. I cannot think of another academic history monograph that gives so much space to the stories themselves.--Social History of Medicine<br> Murray tells his stories with great verve and then mulls them over, bringing to bear all the tools of source analysis, but he is never afraid to offer a final opinion of his own. The result is immensely readable. --Social History of Medicine<br> The years of effort that went into this task have paid rich dividends.... This volume provides us with by far the most detailed record of medieval suicide to date. --Medical History<br> Alexander Murray is the author of Reason and Society in the Middle Ages (1978), an exemplary 'new' history, which reinterprets medieval mentalities on a European scale. Suicide in the Middle Ages is a magnum opus which has been long awaited. It is projected as a trilogy, of which the volume reviewed here is the first.... Searching for suicides has made Murray a pioneer in the comparative study of the legal records of medieval Europe. --M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary Supplement<br>

Author Information

Alexander Murray is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Praelector in Modern History at University College, Oxford.

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