Law and the Illicit in Medieval EuropeRuth Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, E. Ann Matter In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law, legal procedure, and the ideals of justice and equity. Many of our most important modern institutions and legal conceptions grew out of medieval law in its myriad forms (Roman, canon, common, customary, and feudal). Institutional structures represent only a small portion of the wider cultural field affected by--and affecting--law. In Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe such distinguished scholars as Patrick Geary, William Chester Jordan, R. I. Moore, Edward M. Peters, and Susan Mosher Stuard make the case that the development of law is deeply implicated in the growth of medieval theology and Christian doctrine; the construction of discourses on sin, human nature, honor, and virtue; the multiplying forms governing chivalry, demeanor, and social interaction, including gender relations; and the evolution of scholasticism, from its institutional context within the university to its forms of presentation, argumentation, and proof. |
Contents
The Reordering of Law and the Illicit in Eleventh | 1 |
A Fresh Look at Medieval Sanctuary | 17 |
Heresy as Politics and the Politics of Heresy 10221180 | 33 |
A Medieval Ghost Story | 47 |
Legal Status and Imperial Power | 57 |
Licit and Illicit in the Yarnall Collection at the University | 71 |
Judicial Violence and Torture in the Carolingian Empire | 79 |
White | 89 |
10 | 133 |
11 | 149 |
List of Abbreviations | 239 |
The Use and Abuse of Crusader | 276 |
William J Courtenay | 283 |
14 | 290 |
List of Contributors | 305 |
Joel Kaye | |
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Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe Ruth Mazo Karras,Joel Kaye,E. Ann Matter Limited preview - 2013 |
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe Ruth Mazo Karras,Joel Kaye,E. Ann Matter Limited preview - 2010 |
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe Ruth Mazo Karras,Joel Kaye,E. Ann Matter No preview available - 2008 |