Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe / / ed. by Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, E. Ann Matter.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bird, Jessalynn,; Brundage, James A.,; Courtenay, William J.,; Engen, John Van,; Geary, Patrick,; Jordan, William Chester,; Karras, Ruth Mazo,; Kaye, Joel,; Kelly, Henry Ansgar,; Moore, R. I.,; Muldoon, James,; Novikoff, Alex,; Peters, Edward M.,; Somerville, Robert,; Stahl, Alan M.,; Stuard, Susan Mosher,; White, Stephen D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Karras, Ruth Mazo,; Kaye, Joel,; Matter, E. Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

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).Institutional structures represent only a small portion of the wider cultural field affected by-and affecting-law. In Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe such distinguished scholars as Patrick Geary, William Chester Jordan, R. I. Moore, Edward M. Peters, and Susan Mosher Stuard make the case that the development of law is deeply implicated in the growth of medieval theology and Christian doctrine; the construction of discourses on sin, human nature, honor, and virtue; the multiplying forms governing chivalry, demeanor, and social interaction, including gender relations; and the evolution of scholasticism, from its institutional context within the university to its forms of presentation, argumentation, and proof.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Reordering of Law and the Illicit in Eleventh- and Twelfth- Century Europe -- PART I. Legal Systems -- Chapter 1. A Fresh Look at Medieval Sanctuary -- Chapter 2. Heresy as Politics and the Politics of Heresy, 1022-1180 -- Chapter 3. Legal Ethics: A Medieval Ghost Story -- Chapter 4. The Ties That Bind: Legal Status and Imperial Power -- PART II. Writing the Law -- Chapter 5. Licit and Illicit in the Yarnall Collection at the University of Pennsylvania: Pages from the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX -- Chapter 6. Judicial Violence and Torture in the Carolingian Empire -- Chapter 7. The Ambiguity of Treason in Anglo- Norman-French Law, c. 1150-c. 1250 -- Chapter 8. Illicit Religion: The Case of Friar Matthew Grabow, O.P. -- Chapter 9. Marriage, Concubinage, and the Law -- PART III. Cases and Trials -- Chapter 10. Crusaders' Rights Revisited: The Use and Abuse of Crusader Privileges in Early Thirteenth-Century France -- Chapter 11. Learned Opinion and Royal Justice: The Role of Paris Masters of Theology During the Reign of Philip the Fair -- Chapter 12. Coin and Punishment in Medieval Venice -- PART IV. Law Beyond the Law -- Chapter 13. Licit and Illicit in the Rhetoric of the Investiture Conflict -- Chapter 14. Satisfying the Laws: The Legenda of Maria of Venice -- Chapter 15. Canon Law and Chaucer on Licit and Illicit Magic -- Chapter 16. Law, Magic, and Science: Constructing a Border Between Licit and Illicit Knowledge in the Writings of Nicole Oresme -- Abbreviation -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments