Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe /

Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe / / ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn, Carol Symes.

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Law has been a primary locus and vehicle of contact across human history-as a system of ideas embodied in people and enacted on bodies; and also as a material, textual, and sensory "thing." The seven essays gathered here analyze a variety of legal encounters on the medieval globe, ranging...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip,
Davis, Donald R.,
Lambourn, Elizabeth,
Offner, Jerome A.,
Ramírez, Susan Elizabeth,
Skinner, Patricia,
Tegegne, Habtamu Mengistie,
Wilson, Laurel Ann,
HerausgeberIn:
Lambourn, Elizabeth,
Symes, Carol,
Place / Publishing House:Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The medieval globe ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Editor's Introduction to "Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe"
  • The Future of Aztec Law
  • Land and Tenure in Early Colonial Peru: Individualizing the Sapci, "That Which is Common to All"
  • The Edict of King Gälawdéwos against the Illegal Slave Trade in Christians: Ethiopia, 1548
  • Mutilation and the Law in Early Medieval Europe and India: A Comparative Study
  • Common Threads: A Reappraisal of Medieval European Sumptuary Law
  • Toward a History of Documents in Medieval India: The Encounter of Scholasticism and Regional Law in the Smṛticandrikā
  • Chinese Porcelain and the Material Taxonomies of Medieval Rabbinic Law: Encounters with Disruptive Substances in Twelfth-Century Yemen
  • Index

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