TY - BOOK AU - del Río Parra,Elena TI - Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain: Taxonomic and Intellectual Perspectives T2 - The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World Series SN - 9789004392397 AV - HV6535.S7 .R567 2019 U1 - 364.152/3094609031 PY - 2019/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Murder-Spain-History KW - Murder-Press coverage-Spain-History KW - Murder in literature KW - Spain-Social conditions-To 1800 KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- A Murder of Crows -- Chapter 1 The Taxonomic Axis of Fatality: From Series of Monsters to Serial Murderers -- 1 From Series to Individuals -- 2 Series and Fatality -- 3 From Series of Monsters to Serial Murderers -- Chapter 2 Sketching the Face of Evil: Pioneering Serial Killers -- 1 The Antihero Factory -- 2 In Search of Singularity -- 3 Sketching the Face of Evil -- 4 Printing in Parts -- Chapter 3 On the Edge: Living between Suicide and Madness -- 1 Official and False Madmen -- 2 Books, Titles, Laws -- 3 "Hanging from a Beam by Choice" -- 4 Living on the Edge -- Chapter 4 Expressing Criminal Behavior -- 1 Detection before Detectives -- 2 Patterns in Crime -- 3 Killers as Pretenders -- 4 Killing and Obsession -- Chapter 5 Dying in Parts: Criminography and the Cult of Excess -- 1 The Syntax of Evil: From Fait-Divers to the Crime Catalogue -- 2 Casus and Criminography -- 3 Dying in Parts -- 4 The Cult of Excess -- Cleaning the Crime Scene -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects N2 - In Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain Elena del Río Parra brings together a myriad of criminal accounts to examine the aesthetic and rhetorical construction of violent murder and its cultural stance in early modern Spain UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5842550 ER -