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“Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England.”
- Author(s):
- Sara Margaret Butler (see profile)
- Date:
- 2006
- Group(s):
- British History, Late Medieval History, Legal history, Medical Humanities, Medieval Studies
- Subject(s):
- Disability studies, Middle Ages, History, Law, Medicine
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Late medieval history, Legal history, Medical history, Medieval history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/9aa0-za28
- 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.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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