Kevin Dekoster
Biographic Data
| ID | 6554533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Dekoster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Dekoster |
| SIGNATURE | DEKOSTER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5993-4225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hanged Bodies and Melancholic Minds
This article analyses some major developments in the forensic investigation of suicide in early modern Flanders by focussing on the two main roles that medical practitioners played in suicide proceedings. First, they were asked to examine the corpses of alleged suicides in order to establish the actual cause of death and possibly unmask murders that were staged as suicides by hanging — a much-debated topic in the early modern medico-legal literat…
The legal foundations of post-mortem examinations in early modern Flanders. Princely legislation, custom, doctrine and judicial practice
Because of its manifold references to the consultation of medical experts in homicide and infanticide cases, the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1532) is often regarded as an important milestone in the development of early modern forensic medicine. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the County of Flanders, a principality within the Habsburg Netherlands, witnessed a similar upsurge in the production of …
Dissecting Violence. Autopsy, Medical Expertise and Criminal Justice in Early Modern Flanders
Drawing on a sample of 875 forensic medical reports produced within the early modern County of Flanders, this contribution aims to analyse and explain some developments in the medico-legal discourse of violent crime. While sixteenth-century post-mortem reports essentially deal with assessing the lethality of wounds, later centuries witnessed a more elaborate approach to violent death, in which attempts were made to establish the relationship betw…
Entre Huguenots et Valteline
Le rôle qu’a joué la France dans les négociations menant à la Trêve de Douze Ans a déjà reçu bien des attentions de la part des historiens des relations internationales à l’époque moderne. Dans cette contribution, je voudrais analyser et expliquer l’attitude des dirigeants français vis-à-vis d’une éventuelle prolongation de la Trêve, qui allait expirer en avril 1621. Ceci est en effet un aspect qui a reçu nettement moins d’attention dans l’histor…
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Entre Huguenots et Valteline
Le rôle qu’a joué la France dans les négociations menant à la Trêve de Douze Ans a déjà reçu bien des attentions de la part des historiens des relations internationales à l’époque moderne. Dans cette contribution, je voudrais analyser et expliquer l’attitude des dirigeants français vis-à-vis d’une éventuelle prolongation de la Trêve, qui allait expirer en avril 1621. Ceci est en effet un aspect qui a reçu nettement moins d’attention dans l’histor…
The legal foundations of post-mortem examinations in early modern Flanders. Princely legislation, custom, doctrine and judicial practice
Because of its manifold references to the consultation of medical experts in homicide and infanticide cases, the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1532) is often regarded as an important milestone in the development of early modern forensic medicine. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the County of Flanders, a principality within the Habsburg Netherlands, witnessed a similar upsurge in the production of …
Dissecting Violence. Autopsy, Medical Expertise and Criminal Justice in Early Modern Flanders
Drawing on a sample of 875 forensic medical reports produced within the early modern County of Flanders, this contribution aims to analyse and explain some developments in the medico-legal discourse of violent crime. While sixteenth-century post-mortem reports essentially deal with assessing the lethality of wounds, later centuries witnessed a more elaborate approach to violent death, in which attempts were made to establish the relationship betw…
Hanged Bodies and Melancholic Minds
This article analyses some major developments in the forensic investigation of suicide in early modern Flanders by focussing on the two main roles that medical practitioners played in suicide proceedings. First, they were asked to examine the corpses of alleged suicides in order to establish the actual cause of death and possibly unmask murders that were staged as suicides by hanging — a much-debated topic in the early modern medico-legal literat…
Political science (4 works) · Historical and Scientific Studies (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Flemish (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Homicide (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medical emergency (2 works)