Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe

In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law, legal procedure, and the ideals of justice and equity. Many of our most important modern institutions and legal conceptions grew out of medieval law in its myriad forms (Roman, canon, common, customary, and feudal). Institutional structures represent only a small portion of the wider cultural field affected by-and affecting-law. In Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe such distinguished scholars as Patrick Geary, William Chester Jordan, R. I. Moore, Edward M. Peters, and Susan Mosher Stuard make the case that the development of law is deeply implicated in the growth of medieval theology and Christian doctrine; the construction of discourses on sin, human nature, honor, and virtue; the multiplying forms governing chivalry, demeanor, and social interaction, including gender relations; and the evolution of scholasticism, from its institutional context within the university to its forms of presentation, argumentation, and proof.

ISBN 0812240804   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780812240801 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press   Weight (grammes) 640 Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press   Published in Pennsylvania Format Hardback   Series title Middle Ages S. Publication date 09 Apr 2008   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2008010813   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 340.55   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education

		Introduction: The Reordering of Law and the Illicit in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Europe by Edward M. Peters		1
Pt. I		Legal Systems
1		A Fresh Look at Medieval Sanctuary by William Chester Jordan		17
2		Heresy as Politics and the Politics of Heresy, 1022-1180 by R. I. Moore		33
3		Legal Ethics: A Medieval Ghost Story by James A. Brundage		47
4		The Ties That Bind: Legal Status and Imperial Power by James Muldoon		57
Pt. II		Writing the Law
5		Licit and Illicit in the Yarnall Collection at the University of Pennsylvania: Pages from the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX by Robert Somerville		71
6		Judicial Violence and Torture in the Carolingian Empire by Patrick Geary		79
7		The Ambiguity of Treason in Anglo-Norman-French Law, c. 1150-c. 1250 by Stephen D. White		89
8		Illicit Religion:The Case of Friar Matthew Grabow, O.P. by Jolm Van Engen		103
9		Marriage, Concubinage, and the Law by Ruth Mazo Karras		117
Pt. III		Cases and Trials
10		Crusaders' Rights Revisited: The Use and Abuse of Crusader Privileges in Early Thirteenth-Century France by Jessalynn Bird		133
11		Learned Opinion and Royal Justice: The Role of Paris Masters of Theology During the Reign of Philip the Fair by William J. Courtenay		149
12		Coin and Punishment in Medieval Venice by Alan M. Stahl
Pt. IV		Law Beyond the Law
13		Licit and Illicit in the Rhetoric of the Investiture Conflict by Alex Novikoff		183
14		Satisfying the Laws: The Legenda of Maria of Venice by Susan Mosher Stuard		197
15		Canon Law and Chaucer on Licit and Illicit Magic by Henry Ansgar Kelly		211
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