TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pohl-Zucker,Susanne
TI  - Making manslaughter: process, punishment, and restitution in Wurttemberg and Zurich, 1376-1700 
T2  - Medieval law and its practice
SN  - 9789004344716
AV  - KK785.M35 
U1  - 345.43/4702525 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Manslaughter
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - History
KW  - Germany
KW  - Württemberg
KW  - Switzerland
KW  - Zurich
KW  - Reparation (Criminal justice)
N1  - 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; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004344716
ER  -