Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England / / Paul R. Hyams.
Duels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and orderly British ways of settling differences. In this surprising work of social and legal history, Paul R. Hyams reveals a post-Conquest England not all that different from the realms across t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- NOTE ON SOURCES AND CITATIONS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- PART I. Approaches to the Study ofWrong
- CHAPTER ONE. UNDERSTANDING FEUD AND FRIENDSHIP
- CHAPTER TWO. SOCIAL EMOTIONS IN A CULTURE OF VENGEANCE
- PART II. Undifferentiated Wrong and Its Redress
- CHAPTER THREE. REDRESS FOR WRONG IN THE GOVERNANCE OF LATE ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
- CHAPTER FOUR. VENGEANCEANDPEACE~NG IN THE CENTURY AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST
- CHAPTER FIVE. COMMON LAW AND CENTRAL ORDER IN ANGEVIN ENGLAND
- PART III. An Enmity Culture: Writs, Wrongs, and Vengeance in the Age of the Common Law
- CHAPTER SIX. WRONGS AND THEIR RIGHTING IN THE EARLY COMMON LAW
- CHAPTER SEVEN. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF WRONGS: TRESPASS AND THE APPEAL
- CHAPTER EIGHT. WAS THERE AN ENMITY CULTURE IN THIRTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND?
- APPENDIX: Case Narratives
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- VOLUMES IN THE SERIES