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Cover 1 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 12 Author’s notes 14 1. Losses, Lacunae and Liminality 16 Investigating the invisible 16 Historiography 18 The age of an infant 24 Primary sources: a dual approach 27 Archival sources 30 Literary sources 36 Secondary sources: the role of liminality 40 2. European and Medieval Contexts of Infanticide 52 Infanticide in medieval Europe 53 Infanticide in early modern Europe 57 Representations of infanticide in Europe 63 Infanticide in medieval England 66 Representations of infanticide in medieval England 70 3. The liminal child and mother 78 Beliefs and attitudes toward new lives 79 Death and the unwelcome infant 87 Killing and caring 92 Throwing 94 The liminal world of childbirth 99 Unmarried women and pregnancy 103 4. Love, Law and Liminality 114 The ‘betwixt and between’ of betrothal and marriage 115 Liminal marital states in literature 119 Bastard bearing, punishment and liminality 122 Social seclusion and separation 123 Literary death 126 The rituals of socially inclusive punishments 128 Self-imposed punishment and liminality 133 Avoiding the shame of pregnancy: ‘A dose of the Doctor’ 136 5. Constructing Outsiders, Constructing Killers 152 Lack o

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Billingham, Josephine;

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