Title: The body legal in barbarian law
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.
Subjects: Droit germanique, Law and legislation, Personal injuries, Histoire, Germanic Law, Dommage corporel, Droit, Corps humain, Human body, History, Law, germanic, Law, europe, Compensation and Redress, Legislation & jurisprudence, Violence, Accidents, Cost of Illness, Medieval History, Value of Life, Wounds and Injuries
Places: Europe
Time periods: 500-1500 (Moyen Âge), To 1500