Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe -

Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe

Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2010
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-2106-0 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. However, historians have long recognized that medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law and legal procedure. This book makes the case that one cannot understand the era's cultural trends without considering the profound development of law.
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.

Ruth Mazo Karras is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and author of From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Later Medieval Europe, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Joel Kaye is Professor of History at Barnard College and author of Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought. E. Ann Matter is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Preface

Introduction: The Reordering of Law and the Illicit in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Europe

—Edward M. Peters


PART I: LEGAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 1: A Fresh Look at Medieval Sanctuary

—William Chester Jordan

Chapter 2: Heresy as Politics and the Politics of Heresy, 1022-1180

—R. I. Moore

Chapter 3: Legal Ethics: A Medieval Ghost Story

—James Brundage

Chapter 4: The Ties That Bind: Legal Status and Imperial Power

—James Muldoon


PART II: WRITING THE LAW

Chapter 5: Licit and Illicit in the Yarnall Collection at the University of Pennsylvania: Pages from the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX

—Robert Somerville

Chapter 6: Judicial Violence and Torture in the Carolingian Empire

—Patrick Geary

Chapter 7: The Ambiguity of Treason in Anglo-Norman-French Law, c. 1150-c. 1250

—Stephen D. White

Chapter 8: Illicit Religion: The Case of Friar Matthew Grabow, O.P.

—John Van Engen

Chapter 9: Marriage, Concubinage, and the Law

—Ruth Mazo Karras


PART III: CASES AND TRIALS

Chapter 10: Crusaders' Rights Revisited: The Use and Abuse of Crusader Privileges in Early Thirteenth-Century France

—Jessalynn Bird

Chapter 11: Learned Opinion and Royal Justice: The Role of Paris Masters of Theology During the Reign of Philip the Fair

—William J. Courtenay

Chapter 12: Coin and Punishment in Medieval Venice

—Alan M. Stahl


PART IV: LAW BEYOND THE LAW

Chapter 13: Licit and Illicit in the Rhetoric of the Investiture Conflict

—Alex Novikoff

Chapter 14: Satisfying the Laws: The Legenda of Maria of Venice

—Susan Mosher Stuard

Chapter 15: Canon Law and Chaucer on Licit and Illicit Magic

—Henry Ansgar Kelly

Chapter 16: Law and Science: Constructing a Border Between Licit and Illicit Knowledge in the Writings of Nicole Oresme

—Joel Kaye


List of Abbreviations

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.3.2010
Reihe/Serie The Middle Ages Series
Verlagsort Pennsylvania
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-8122-2106-0 / 0812221060
ISBN-13 978-0-8122-2106-0 / 9780812221060
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