Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (eBook)

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Albrecht Classen,University of Arizona, Tucson, USA;Connie Scarborough, Texas Tech University, Dallas, USA.

Classen, Albrecht#Scarborough, Connie|Introduction. Crime, Transgression, and Deviancy: Behaviors that Defines Us All 9
Ribémont, Bernard|Chapter 1. Le ‘crime épique’ et sa punition: quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) 37
Niiranen, Susanna|Chapter 2. “I know how to be a whore and thief” The poet’s reputation: troubadours – ancestors of poètes maudits? 51
Clason, Christopher R.|Chapter 3. The Law – Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems 73
Hahn, Stacey|Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French Romance: Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth 95
Taylor, Scott L.|Chapter 5. Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus: Survival of Customary Justice and Resistance to its Displacement by the “New” Ordines iudiciorum as Evidenced by Francophonic Literature of the High Middle Ages 117
Classen, Albrecht|Chapter 6. Crime and Violence in the Middle Ages: The Cases of Heinrich der Glichezare’s Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære’s Helmbrecht 139
Gough, John|Chapter 7. The Function of Projected Pain: The Poetry of François Villon and the Gift of Self 167
Jost, Jean E.|Chapter 8. Retribution in Gamelyn: A Case in the Courts 183
Komornicka, Jolanta N.|Chapter 9. Contra Signum Nostrum: The Symbolism of Lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois 197
Scarborough, Connie L.|Chapter 10. Women as Victims and Criminals in the Siete Partidas 233
Ruiz, Maria Cecilia|Chapter 11. Theft in Juan Manuel’s El Conde Lucanor 255
Turning, Patricia|Chapter 12. Competition for the Prisoner’s Body: Wardens and Jailers in Fourteenth-Century Southern France 289
Wiedl, Birgit|Chapter 13. The Host on the Doorstep: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders in an Alleged Host Desecration in Fourteenth-Century Austria 307
Pigg, Daniel F.|Chapter 14. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale and the Worlds of Judgment 355
Ross, Lia B.|Chapter 15. Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais 367
Beusterien, John|Chapter 16. The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina 411
Llewellyn, Kathleen M.|Chapter 17. Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre 423
Lombart, Nicolas|Chapter 18. Crimes et Châtiments d’Exception en France au Temps des Guerres de Religion: l’Utopie Judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) 445
Moffitt Peacock, Martha|Chapter 19. The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the “Art” of Correction 467
Willard, Thomas|Chapter 20. Pimping for the Fairy Queen: Some Cozeners in Shakespeare’s England 499
Bjaï, Denis|Chapter 21. Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels 517
Coudert, Allison P.|Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations 529
Luef, Evelyne|Chapter 23. Punishment Post Mortem – The Crime of Suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden 563
List of Illustrations 585
Contributors 589
Index 599
Acknowledgment and Gratitude 609