Sexuality, law and legal practice and the Reformation in Norway / / by Anne Irene Riisy.

Based on legislation and legal practice from the period c. 1250-1600 the book takes issue with the most important viewpoints in earlier research by early modernists: that the Reformation represented a watershed in a development characterized by greater criminalisation of sexual acts, increase in the...

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Superior document:The northern world, v. 44
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Northern world ; v. 44.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials / A.I. Riisøy
  • Introduction / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter One. New Laws, Old Principles / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Two. Individual Criminal Responsibility / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Three. The Final Criminalisation Of Sexual Acts In The High Middle Ages / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Four. Capital Punishment / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Five. Fines And Confiscation Of Property / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Six. From Penance To Church Discipline / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Seven. The Reward Of Sin / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Eight. Who Was Punished, And For What? / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Nine. Losing One’s Inheritance / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Ten. Sexual Crimes As A Function Of Marriage: Lutherism Or Christianity? / A.I. Riisøy
  • Chapter Eleven. Gender Differences / A.I. Riisøy
  • Conclusion - The Long High Middle Ages / A.I. Riisøy
  • Appendix I / A.I. Riisøy
  • Sources And Bibliography / A.I. Riisøy
  • Index / A.I. Riisøy.