Criminalising Animals in Medieval France: Insights from Records of Executions
This article explores compelling and specific cases from France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in which animals were formally executed for crimes. The so-called ‘medieval animal trials’ were cases in which animals were accused and sentenced for harming persons or property. In secular...
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-02-01
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| Online Access: | https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4552/ |