Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies viewed murder and dealt with murderers.

Introduction: Murder Most Foul
Secret Killing and Murder by Magic in the Law of Adomnán - Bridgette Slavin
Discursive Murders: The St Brice's Day Massacre, Beowulf and Morðor - Jay Paul Gates
Mourning Murderers in Medieval Jewish Law - Pinchas Roth
Treacherous Murder: Language and Meaning in French Murder Trials - Jolanta Komornicka
'Mordre wol out': Murder and Justice in Chaucer - Larissa Tracy
Bringing Murder to Light: Death, Publishing and Performance in Icelandic Sagas - Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar
'I Think This Bacon is Wearing Shoes': Comedy and Murder in the Old French Fabliaux - Anne Latowsky
'Chevaliers ocirre': Manslaughter, Morality and Meaning in the Queste del Saint Graal - Lucas Wood
Murder, Manslaughter and Reputation: Killing in Malory's Le Morte Darthur - Dwayne Coleman
Poisoning as a Means of State Assassination in Early Modern Venice - Matthew Lubin
Defamation, a Murder More Foul?: The 'Second Murder' of Louis, Duke of Orleans [d. 1407] Reconsidered - Emily Hutchison
'A general murther, an universal slaughter': Strategies of Anti-Jesuit Defamation in Reporting Assassination in the Early Modern Period - Andrew McKenzie-McHarg
Negotiating Murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours - Jeffrey Doolittle
Poisoning, Killing and Murder in the Edictus Rothari - Thomas Gobbitt
Murder, Foul and Fair, in Shota Rustaveli's The Man in the Panther Skin - G. Koolemans Beynen
A Multiple Poisoning in the City of Valencia: Sanxo Calbó's Crime [1442] - Carmel Ferragud
A Case of Mariticide in Late Medieval France - Patricia Turning
Monstrous Un-Making: Maternal Infanticide and Female Agency in Early Modern England - Dianne Berg
Imps of Hell: Young People, Murder and the Early English Press - Ben Parsons
Conclusion - Hannah Skoda
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