Law Literature And Social Regulation In Early Medieval England

Author : Andrew Rabin,Anya Adair
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277605

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Law, Literature, and Social Regulation in Early Medieval England by Andrew Rabin,Anya Adair Pdf

Valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society. Pre-Conquest English law was among the most sophisticated in early medieval Europe. Composed largely in the vernacular, it played a crucial role in the evolution of early English identity and exercised a formative influence on the development of the Common Law. However, recent scholarship has also revealed the significant influence of these legal documents and ideas on other cultural domains, both modern and pre-modern. This collection explores the richness of pre-Conquest legal writing by looking beyond its traditional codified form. Drawing on methodologies ranging from traditional philology to legal and literary theory, and from a diverse selection of contributors offering a broad spectrum of disciplines, specialities and perspectives, the essays examine the intersection between traditional juridical texts - from law codes and charters to treatises and religious regulation - and a wide range of literary genres, including hagiography and heroic poetry. In doing so, they demonstrate that the boundary that has traditionally separated "law" from other modes of thought and writing is far more porous than hitherto realized. Overall, the volume yields valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society.

Author : Patrick Wormald
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1852851759

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Legal Culture in the Early Medieval West by Patrick Wormald Pdf

"Wormald's essays seek to establish that legal history is not just the history of law, nor even that of society, but also that of elite and popular culture in complex and creative symbiosis. This collection will appeal to all interested in the institutions and ideologies of the premodern world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Stefan Jurasinski,Andrew Rabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9042939796

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Languages of the Law in Early Medieval England by Stefan Jurasinski,Andrew Rabin Pdf

As broad in scope as the interests of its honoree, this volume brings together leading historians of early English and continental law to pay tribute to Lisi Oliver. The essays gathered here range from the earliest laws of the kings of Kent in the seventh century to the reception of Old English law in the seventeenth. Interested both in how law was made and the ways in which it was applied, the contributors explore the careers of such prominent legislators as Alfred the Great and Wulfstan of York while also examining issues of gender, social status and textual transmission. This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of law, the legal culture of Anglo-Saxon England, and the emergence of modern concepts of self and statehood in the early middle ages.

Author : Elise Wang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192698247

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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature by Elise Wang Pdf

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, drawing from the instantiating texts of English law: acts of Parliament, judicial treatises, the Magna Carta. But those whose job it was to write about the law rarely wrote about felony. Its definition was left to its practice--from investigation to conviction--and that procedure fell to local communities who were generally untrained in the law. Left with many practical and ethical questions and few legal answers, they turned to cultural ones, archived in sermons they had heard, plays they had seen, and poetry they knew. This book reads the documents of criminal procedure--coroners' reports, plea rolls, and gaol delivery records--alongside literary scenes of investigation, interrogation, and witnessing to tell a new intellectual history of criminal procedure's beginnings. The chapters of The Making of Felony Procedure guide the reader through the steps of a felony prosecution, from act to conviction, examining the questions local communities faced at each step. What evidence should be prioritized in a death investigation? Should the accused consider narrative satisfaction when building his plea? What are the dangers of a witnessing system that depends so heavily on a few "oathworthy" men? What can a jury do if the accused's guilt seems partial or complex? And what if the defendant-for whatever reason--refuses to participate in this new, still--delicate system of justice? The book argues that answers they found, and the sources that informed them, created the system that became modern criminal procedure. The epilogue offers some thoughts about the resilience and incoherence of the concept of felony, from the start of the jury trial to the present day.

Author : Alice Jorgensen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843847052

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Emotional Practice in Old English Literature by Alice Jorgensen Pdf

An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.Scholarship is increasingly interested in investigating concepts of emotion found in Old English literature. This study takes the next step, arguing that both heroic and religious texts were vehicles for emotional practice - that is, for doing things with emotion. Using case studies from heroic poetry (Beowulf, The Battle of Brunanburh and The Battle of Maldon), religious poetry (Christ I and Christ III) and homilies (selections from the Vercelli Book, Blickling Homilies and the works of Wulfstan), it shows via detailed close readings that texts could be used to act out emotional styles, manage the emotions arising from specific events, and negotiate relationships both within social groups and with God. Meanwhile, a chapter on the Old English Boethius explores how the control of unruly emotions is theorized as the transfer of attachment from the things of this world to the things of the divine. Overall, the volume offers new angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal. angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal. angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal. angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal.

Author : Robin Fleming
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521528461

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Domesday Book and the Law by Robin Fleming Pdf

The Domesday Book contains a great many things, including the most comprehensive, varied, and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the common law. This book argues that it can - and should - be read as a legal text. When the statistical information present in the great survey is stripped away, there is much material still left, almost all of which stems directly from inquest, testimony given by jurors impanelled in 1086, or from the sworn statements of lords and their men. This information, read in context, can provide a picture of what the law looked like, the ways in which it was changing, and the means whereby the inquest was a central event in the formation of English law. The volume provides translations (with Latin legal terminology included parenthetically) for all of Domesday Book's legal references, each numbered and organised by county, fee, and folio.

Author : Katherine Fischer Drew
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015013528115

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Law and Society in Early Medieval Europe by Katherine Fischer Drew Pdf

Author : Emily Steiner,Candace Barrington
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0801487706

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The Letter of the Law by Emily Steiner,Candace Barrington Pdf

Scholars have long been aware of the looming presence of law in medieval English literature, from Christ as a litigious redemptor to Chaucer's deal-making Host in The Canterbury Tales. Most scholarly work on the subject has been confined either to tracking down representations of legal practices in texts or to examining formal questions relating to legal discourse. In a groundbreaking departure, The Letter of the Law suggests that law and literature should be understood as parallel forms of discourse -- at times complementary, at times antagonistic, but always mutually illuminating. Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington maintain that medievalists are uniquely placed to make valuable new contributions to the subject of law and literature, in part because of the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the study of medieval law, inseparable as it was from political theory and theology. Treating texts as varied as Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the fifteenth-century Robin Hood ballads, and William Thorpe's account of his own heresy trial, the nine never-before-published essays in this volume reveal the intersections of legal and documentary culture with vernacular literary production. They establish that law and English literature were intimately bound up in processes of institutional, linguistic, and social change, and they explain how the specific conditions of medieval law and literature offer useful models in studying later periods. An appendix contains a translation by Andrew Galloway of History or Narration Concerning the Manner and Form of the Miraculous Parliament at Westminster in the Year 1386.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Blanchard,Assistant Professor Christopher Tolin Riedel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277643

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The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959 by Mary Elizabeth Blanchard,Assistant Professor Christopher Tolin Riedel Pdf

Essays highlighting the importance of three kings - Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig - in understanding England in the tenth century. Much scholarly attention has been devoted to both the expanding kingdom of Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, and Æthelstan, and to the larger and integrated realm of their more distant successors, Edgar and Æthelred II. However, the English kingdom in the 940s and 950s, and its three kings, Edmund (939-946), Eadred (946-955), and Eadwig (955-959), the men who inherited and held together the kingdom created by their immediate predecessors, have been somewhat neglected, with little research being dedicated to these men as kings, or the era in which they ruled. This volume offers a variety of approaches to the period. Its contributors bring to light royal legal innovations to ecclesiastical law, oaths, heriot, complex factional politics, including the crucial role of queens, differing perspectives on the final era of an independent northern kingdom of York, and developments in literary culture outside the domineering trend of the later monastic reformers.

Author : Candace Barrington,Sebastian Sobecki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107180789

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature by Candace Barrington,Sebastian Sobecki Pdf

A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.

Author : Anthony Musson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851158426

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Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages by Anthony Musson Pdf

The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004232570

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Laws, Lawyers and Texts by Anonim Pdf

The essays in this volume in honour of Paul Brand, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, match his career and interests in the world of legal history as well as medieval social and economic history and textual studies. The topics explored include the Angevin reforms, legal literature, the legal profession and judiciary, land law, the relation between the crown and the Jews, the interaction of the Common Law with Canon and Civil Law, as well as procedural and testamentary procedures, the management of both ecclesiastical and lay estates and the afterlife of medieval learning. Like Brand’s own work, all the essays are grounded on detailed studies of primary sources. The result is a high quality scholarly book that will be of interest and use to medieval scholars, students and non-specialists with wide-ranging and varied interests. Contributors include Sir John H. Baker*, David Carpenter, David Crook, Charles Donahue, Jr, Barbara Harvey, Richard H. Helmholz, John Hudson, Paul Hyams, David J. Ibbetson, Susanne Jenks, Janet S. Loengard, Alexandra Nicol, Bruce R. O'Brien, Robert C. Palmer, Sandra Raban, Jonathan Rose, Henry Summerson and Sarah Tullis. *Professor Jon Baker is the winner of the American Society for Legal History’s 2013 Sutherland Prize. The prize, which is awarded annually, is for the best article on English legal history published in the previous year. The Prize was awarded to John baker for his article “Deeds Speak Louder Than Words: Covenants and the Law of Proof, 1290-1321" in Laws, Lawyers and Texts: Studies in Medieval Legal History in Honour of Paul Brand, ed. Susanne Jenks, Jonathan Rose and Christopher Whittick (2012). For more information about the Prize see: http://aslh.net/about-aslh/honors-awards-and-fellowships/sutherland-prize/

Author : George Garnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521430763

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Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy by George Garnett Pdf

An important set of historical essays on England and Normandy from the tenth to the thirteenth century.

Author : Wendy Davies,Paul Fouracre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521428955

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The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe by Wendy Davies,Paul Fouracre Pdf

This is a collection of original essays on the settlement of disputes in the early middle ages, a subject of central importance for social and political history. Case material, from the evidence of charters, is used to reveal the realities of the settlement process in the behaviour and interactions of people - instead of the prescriptive and idealised models of law-codes and edicts. The book is not therefore a technical study of charters evidence. The geographical range across Europe is unusually wide, which allows comparison across differing societies. Frankish material is inevitably prominent, but the contributors have sought to integrate Celtic, Greek, Italian and Spanish material into the mainstream of the subject. Above all, the book aims to 'demystify' the study of early medieval law, and to present a radical reappraisal of established assumptions about law and society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004284647

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Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England by Anonim Pdf

Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England offers an account of the fluidity and artificiality of legal personhood before the individualistic turn in law vis-à-vis juristictional pluralism.