What is it about?
This article explores the ways in which parricide (the killing of parents by their children) was understood culturally and treated by the legal system in England and Wales between 1600 and 1760, and considers the differences and similarities with the present.
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Why is it important?
This topic has not been explored in detail by other historians of the early modern family or of crime.
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This page is a summary of: Imagining the Unimaginable, Journal of Family History, May 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0363199016644706.
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