Curia
Subtitle: a social history of a Provençal criminal court in the fourteenth century
By: by Steven Bednarski, St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo
Series: Histoire et sociétés; Collection "Histoire et sociétés" (Montpellier, France)
Publisher: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Montpellier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9782842699703
Subjects: Crime; History; Courts; Criminals
Description: "Curia tells the social history of a lote medieval criminal court, its users, and its operators. This court was a seigneurial possession of the Knights Hospitalier located in the Provençal town of Manosque. The book is based on an exhaustive study of over 1,500 criminal inquest records from between 1340 and 1403. These documents preserve the detailed words and deeds of medieval towns-people. From them, the book presents 'history from below,' to consider how people manoeuvred in society. If lays bore solidari-ties, enmities, passions, and lies. Between its tales of adultery, wife assault, child abuse, treason, theft, and arson, it stitches together the fabric of everyday life. While the criminal records reveal how individuals navigated social spaces, they also highiight a pivotai moment in western juridical development. By the fourteenth century, court operators deliberately drew men and women into the workings of justice, and encouraged them to use courts as institutionalized for a for conflict resolution. At the same Lime, increased buy-in from subjects offered court operators renewed opportunities for traditional, top-down regulation."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pleas According to Principal Accused and Gender --; title: Offences by Prevalence --; title: Manosquin Criminal Offences Grouped by Type --; title: Taxes due to the Hospital (1z93-141o) --; title: Distribution of Verdicts Among Tax Related Inquests --; title: Summary of Pecuniary & Property Affairs in the Criminal Suies (1340-1403) --; title: Relationship of Accused to Denouncer by Gender & Faith (Pecuniary Trials) --; title: Relationship of Accused to Denouncer by Gender & Faith (Property Trials) --; title: Gender of Accused in Assault Trials (1340-1403).