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In the name of love : romantic ideology and its victims.
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ISBN: 9780198566496 0198566492 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Fatal love : spousal killers, law, and punishment in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic
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ISBN: 0804796319 9780804796316 9780804794633 0804794634 Year: 2016 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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For historians, spousal murders are significant for what they reveal about social and family history, in particular the hidden history of day-to-day gender relations, conflicts, crimes, and punishments. 'Fatal Love' examines this phenomenon in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic, focusing on incidents occurring in New Spain (colonial Mexico), New Granada (colonial Colombia), and Spain from the 1740's to the 1820's. In the more than 200 cases consulted, it considers not only the social features of the murders, but also the legal discourses and judicial practices guiding their historical treatment, helping to reveal the historical intersection of domestic violence, private and state/church patriarchy, and the law.

The murder of Regilla
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ISBN: 9780674025837 0674025830 0674034899 0674042204 9780674042209 9780674034891 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 BCE, Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes, a wealthy Greek. Twenty years later--and eight months pregnant with her sixth child--Regilla died under mysterious circumstances, after a blow to the abdomen delivered by Herodes's freedman. Though Herodes was charged, he was acquitted. Pomeroy's investigation suggests that despite Herodes's erection of numerous monuments to his deceased wife, he was in fact guilty of the crime.

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