Law and the illicit in medieval europe
By: Edited by Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, and E. Ann Matter.
Contributors: Karras, Ruth Mazo, 1957-; Kaye, Joel, 1946-; Matter, E. Ann.
Series: Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780812240801
Subjects: Law -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Law, Medieval
Description: 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).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The reordering of law and the illicit in eleventh and twelfth-century Europe / Edward M. Peters; title: A fresh look at medieval sanctuary / William Chester Jordan; title: Heresy as politics and the politics of heresy, 1022-1180 / R. I. Moore; title: Legal ethics : a medieval ghost story / James Brundage; title: The ties that bind : legal status and imperial power / James Muldoon; title: Licit and illicit in the Yarnall collection at the University of Pennsylvania : pages from the decretals of Pope Gregory IX / Robert Somerville; title: Judicial violence and torture in the Carolingian empire / Patrick Geary; title: The ambiguity of treason in Anglo-Norman-French law, c. 1150-c. 1250 / Stephen D. White; title: Illicit religion : the case of Friar Matthew Grabow, O.P. / John Van Engen; title: Marriage, concubinage, and the law / Ruth Mazo Karras; title: Crusaders' rights revisited : the use and abuse of crusader privileges in early thirteenth-century France / Jessalynn Bird; title: Learned opinion and royal justice: the role of Paris masters of theology during the reign of Philip the Fair / William J. Courtenay; title: Coin and punishment in medieval Venice / Alan M. Stahl; title: Licit and illicit in the rhetoric of the investiture conflict / Alex Novikoff; title: Satisfying the laws : the legenda of Maria of Venice / Susan Mosher Stuard; title: Canon law and chaucer on licit and illicit magic / Henry Ansgar Kelly; title: Law and science : constructing a border between licit and illicit knowledge in the writings of Nicole Oresme / Joel Kaye.