Welcome to episode one of Murther, She Spoke! This series is part of the Pritzker Legal Research Center Productions, podcasts from the library at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Murther, She Spoke is a limited series and companion to An Inquisition for Blood. In each episode, curators Tyne Lowe and Brittany Adams sit down for a casual conversation about some of the juicy details that didn’t make it into the exhibit. This week, we cover social crimes. What was petty treason? How did early modern men lose their masculinity? And what should you absolutely NOT do if someone invites you down to see their casemates?!
We decided to try out a book club-esque format, where we did all the reading so you don’t have to. However, if you’d like to join in, here are the readings for this week:
- Histories IV (4) and IX (9) from The Triumph’s of God’s Revenge, which can be accessed via the Internet Archive.
- Maurizio Ascari, “The Shades of a Shadow: Crime as the Dark Projection of Authority in Early Modern England,” Critical Survey 28, no. 1 (2016): 78–92, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24712600.
- Anthony Fletcher, “Manhood, the Male Body, Courtship and the Household in Early Modern England,” History 84, no. 275 (1999): 419–36, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24424587.
Also, as promised in the episode, here’s that chart of the Great Chain of Being:
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Finally, our fabulous theme song is none other than “Oriental Waltz (Piano)” by Alena Smirnova. Licensed under CC BY-N.C. 4.0, we’ve cropped it and edited it to fade in and out of our podcast.