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236 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804717991
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01 May 1990
Description
To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excusable--a supplicant had to tell the king a story. These stories took the form of letters of remissio...
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236 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804717991
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01 May 1990
Description
To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excusable--a supplicant had to tell the king a story. These stories took the form of letters of remissio...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings