How Long to Read The Criminalization of Abortion in the West

How Long Does it Take to Read The Criminalization of Abortion in the West?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read The Criminalization of Abortion in the West by Wolfgang Müller

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite different but interrelated historical trajectories. On one hand, there is the ancient Judeo-Christian condemnation of prenatal homicide as a wrong warranting retribution; on the other, there is the juristic definition of "crime" in the modern sense of the word, which distinguished the term sharply from "sin" and "tort" and was tied to the rise of Western jurisprudence. To find the act of abortion first identified as a crime in the West, one has to go back to the twelfth century, to the schools of ecclesiastical and Roman law in medieval Europe. In this book, Wolfgang P. Müller tells the story of how abortion came to be criminalized in the West. As he shows, criminalization as a distinct phenomenon and abortion as a self-standing criminal category developed in tandem with each other, first being formulated coherently in the twelfth century at schools of law and theology in Bologna and Paris. Over the ensuing centuries, medieval prosecutors struggled to widen the range of criminal cases involving women accused of ending their unwanted pregnancies. In the process, punishment for abortion went from the realm of carefully crafted rhetoric by ecclesiastical authorities to eventual implementation in practice by clerical and lay judges across Latin Christendom. Informed by legal history, moral theology, literature, and the history of medicine, Müller's book is written with the concerns of modern readers in mind, thus bridging the gap that might otherwise divide modern and medieval sensibilities.

How long is The Criminalization of Abortion in the West?

The Criminalization of Abortion in the West by Wolfgang Müller is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Criminalization of Abortion in the West Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read The Criminalization of Abortion in the West aloud.

What Reading Level is The Criminalization of Abortion in the West?

The Criminalization of Abortion in the West is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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