A Companion to Crime and Deviance in the Middle Ages /

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

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 discus...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (446 p.)
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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

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