The body legal in barbarian law
By: Lisi Oliver
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series -- 9; Toronto Anglo-Saxon series -- 9.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780802097064
Subjects: Droit germanique; Law and legislation; Personal injuries; Histoire; Germanic Law; Dommage corporel; Droit; Corps humain; Human body; History
Description: "The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury tariffs, The Body Legal in Barbarian Law examines a variety of issues, including the interrelationships between victims, perpetrators, and their families; the causes and results of wounds inflicted in daily life; the methods, successes, and failures of healing techniques; the processes of individual redress or public litigation; and the native and borrowed developments in the various 'barbarian' territories as they separated from the Roman Empire.

By applying the techniques of linguistic anthropology to the pre-history of medicine, anatomical knowledge, and law, Lisi Oliver has produced a remarkable study that sheds new light on early Germanic conceptions of the body in terms of medical value, physiological function, psychological worth, and social significance."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-283) and index.