A Companion to Crime and Deviance in the Middle Ages / / ed. by Hannah Skoda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Badr, Yasmine,; Bennison, Amira K.,; Brown, Warren C.,; Butler, Sara M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Skoda, Hannah,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Arc Companions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (446 p.)

This reference work examines the ways in which some medieval behaviours and identities were categorized as criminal or deviant. It also explores the implications of modern demonization of the Middle Ages. Crime and deviance only exist when certain behaviours are designated as such. As well as discussing constructions of deviance, this book also explores the behaviours and identities which provoked these labels and processes. The model is one of reciprocity between behaviours and processes of demonisation and criminalisation. Each authoritative essay engages carefully with this approach, examining behaviours, the ways they were demonized, and the relationship between the two processes. The three parts of the volume are centred around forms of discursive and normative power—religious ideologies, political ideologies, and legalism. The authors also explore issues of political discourse, spiritual censure, justice and punishment, and the construction of taboos.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- PART ONE: RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGIES -- Introduction -- IDEAS AND BELIEFS -- The Heretic: Contingent and Commodified -- Censorship and Criminalization of Ideas in Western Europe -- Medieval Suicide -- SEXUALITY -- Attitudes to Same- Sex Sexual Relations in the Latin World -- Marriage and Sexuality in China, 960– 1368 CE -- MONEY -- Usury as Deviance in Medieval Europe -- PART TWO: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES -- Introduction -- TREASON -- El and Bulqa: Between Order and Chaos in the Formative Years of the Mongol Empire (1206– 1259) -- Treason in France and England in the Later Middle Ages -- Revolts in the Late Medieval Middle East, 1200– 1500 -- POLITICAL VISIONS OF COMMUNITY -- Power, Scapegoating, and the Marginalization of Jews in Western Europe in the High Middle Ages (Eleventh– Fourteenth Centuries) -- Articulating and Contesting Power in the Twelfth- Century Maghrib -- Social and Environmental Policing -- PART THREE: LEGALISM -- Introduction -- THEFT -- Shifting Attitudes to Theft in Medieval Western Europe -- “This may bring about many evils”: The Jewish Minority Community in Medieval Europe Facing Its Own Thieves -- VIOLENCE -- The Criminalization of Violence in the Medieval West -- Rape and Law in Medieval Western Europe -- An Analysis of “Rape” in Islamic Legal Discourse (1000– 1500 CE) -- WITHIN THE HOME -- Between the Muslim State and Individual Agency: The Regulation of Sexuality in the Jewish Communities of Medieval Egypt -- Attitudes to Domestic Violence in Christian Europe -- Epilogue -- Index -- Thematic Indexes of Contents