For example, in the “Age of Chivalry”, duels for love or against offenses were considered honorable and required of nobility. The book is divided into chapters by the ages that held different perspectives on assassinations, relations and murder. This history is just as concerned with describing “ingenious methods of killing”, as the “many unintended consequences.” The book not only reviews the “historical evidence” but also the “statistical analysis” to understand the aftermath of these assassinations. So, do assassinations work?” This is a curious scholarly question that I have not seen addressed from this perspective before. More recently have come new motives like religious and political fanaticism, revolution and liberation, with governments also getting in on the act, while many victims seem to have been surprisingly careless: Abraham Lincoln was killed after letting his bodyguard go for a drink. “Personal ambition, revenge, and anger have encouraged many to violent deeds, like the Turkish sultan who had nineteen of his brothers strangled or the bodyguards who murdered a dozen Roman emperors. Thus, this book sets out on the honorable quest of explaining the crime of assassination in its widely different geographical and political contexts. Can there ever be a benevolent assassination of a nuclear scientist, or a totalitarian leader? Surely, any type of assassination invites the question of why any cause is worthy of murder without the judicial punishment of the guilty assassin or the leader ordering the hit. Given the power assassinations hold in shifting international politics between political parties, between families, or between countries, the scholarly study of cases where a death is a confirmed assassination is essential for the security of the world.
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If James had been second or third in line for the throne, the deaths of a dozen alternates would appear accidental enough, but surely this extraordinary number of premature deaths had to be a series of undiscovered or covert assassinations.
This seizure of power has historically been presented as England conquering Scotland in this union of the crowns, but it was really a victory for the plot to overthrow Elizabeth and her line of succession by James, the Scottish king. Instead, Mary Queen of Scot’s son James I took over both the Scottish and English thrones. The other day, I looked up the tree of potential heirs who could have inherited Elizabeth I’s throne upon her death in 1603 it turned out that at least 12 of them had died young, 1 was disqualified because Elizabeth refused to acknowledge his parents had married, and 1 simply never made a claim for the throne. John Withington, Assassins’ Deeds: A History of Assassination from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, December 8, 2020).
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