Cultures of suicide?: Suicide verdicts and the "community" in thirteenth-and fourteenth-century England.(Report)
From: The Historian
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Date: 9/22/2007
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Author: Butler, Sara M.
THE USE OF THE TERM "COMMUNITY" in historical studies continues to present problems for many medievalists. Myriad studies have emphasized the inadequacy of the term when describing medieval society. Microstudies of manors and villages, especially in the English context, by historians Barbara A. Hanawalt, J. Ambrose Raftis, and Sherri Olson (among others) have highlighted the sheer variety of experiences within and among the peasantry, reminding us that the "village community" masks a ...
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