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Exceptional crime in early modern Spain : taxonomic and intellectual perspectives
- Title
- Exceptional crime in early modern Spain : taxonomic and intellectual perspectives / by Elena del Rio Parra.
- Author
- Río Parra, Elena del
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 218 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain accounts for the representation of violent and complex murders, analysing the role of the criminal, its portrayal through rhetorical devices, and its cultural and aesthetic impact. Proteic traits allow for an understanding of how crime is constructed within the parameters of exception, borrowing from pre-existent forms while devising new patterns and categories such as criminography, the 'star killer, ' the staging of crimes as suicides, serial murders, and the faking of madness. These accounts aim at bewildering and shocking demanding readers through a carefully displayed cult to excessive behaviour. The arranged 'economy of death' displayed in murder accounts will set them apart from other exceptional instances, as proven by their long-standing presence in subsequent centuries"--
- Series Statement
- The medieval and early modern Iberian world, 1569-1934 ; volume 68
- Uniform Title
- Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 68.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A murder of crows -- The taxonomic axis of fatality : from series of monsters to serial murderers -- Sketching the face of evil : pioneering serial killers -- On the edge : living between suicide and madness -- Expressing criminal behavior -- Dying in parts : criminography and the cult of excess -- Cleaning the crime scene.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-114
- ISBN
- 9789004390171
- 9004390170
- LCCN
- 2019005682
- OCLC
- 1081431366
- Author
- Río Parra, Elena del, author.
- Title
- Exceptional crime in early modern Spain : taxonomic and intellectual perspectives / by Elena del Rio Parra.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The medieval and early modern Iberian world, 1569-1934 ; volume 68Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 68.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1800
- Other Form:
- Online version: Río Parra, Elena del. Exceptional crime in early modern Spain. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004392397 (DLC) 2019010319
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-114