Wergild Compensation And Penance

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004466128

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Wergild, Compensation and Penance by Anonim Pdf

This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person’s status, to prevent and end conflicts, and to negotiate between an individual and the agents of statehood. This collection of interlocking essays by historians, philologists and jurists represents a major contribution to the study of law and society in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages. Contributors are Lukas Bothe, Warren Brown, Stefan Esders, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Paul Hyams, Tom Lambert, Ralph W. Mathisen, Rob Meens, Han Nijdam, Lisi Oliver, Harald Siems, Karl Ubl, and Helle Vogt. See inside the book.

Author : Thomas Kazen,Rikard Roitto
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783161624650

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Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World by Thomas Kazen,Rikard Roitto Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004364950

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Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain by Anonim Pdf

The twelve essays in Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain examine marches and margins as jurisdictional, legal, and social expressions of power, building upon the scholarship of Professor Cynthia J. Neville.

Author : Carine van Rhijn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351368872

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Leading the Way to Heaven by Carine van Rhijn Pdf

Starting from manuscripts compiled for local priests in the Carolingian period, this book investigates the way in which pastoral care took shape at the local levels of society. They show what illiterate lay people learned about their religion, but also what priests themselves knew. The Carolingian royal dynasty, which ruled over much of Europe in the eighth and ninth century, is well-known for its success in war, patronage of learning and its ambitious style of rulership. A central theme in their plans for the future of their kingdom was to ensure God's everlasting support, and to make sure that all inhabitants – down to the last illiterate farmer – reached eternal life in heaven. This book shows how the ideal of leading everybody to salvation was a central element of Carolingian culture. The grass-roots approach shows how early medieval religion was anything but uniform, how it encompassed all spheres of daily life and how well-educated local priests did not only know how to baptise and preach, but could also advise on matters concerning health, legal procedure and even the future. This volume is of great use to upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in the ecclesiastical history of Europe in the Carolingian period.

Author : Ariel Colonomos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192890566

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Pricing Lives by Ariel Colonomos Pdf

This book discusses how human lives are equated with the material, and argues that pricing lives lies at the core of the political; in fact, as in Plato or Hobbes, and in the Weberian ethics of responsibility, measurement is considered to be one of its central features. Ariel Colonomos argues that this measure relies primarily on human lives and interests, and that the material equivalence to lives is twofold. The equivalence is a double equation, as we pay for lives and we pay with lives. This double equation constitutes the measurement upon which the political equilibrium of a society depends and is thus a key constitutive part of the political. The book adopts two approaches, both with an interdisciplinary perspective: one explanatory and the other normative. First, it explains the nexus between existential goods and material goods, drawing on a detailed analysis of several case studies from contemporary politics, both domestic and international. Second, it discusses normatively the material valuation of human lives and the human value of material goods. Value attribution and the question of the material equivalent to lives are of relevance not only for political theory and philosophy, but also for sociology, history, international relations, and legal studies.

Author : Warren C. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479585

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Beyond the Monastery Walls by Warren C. Brown Pdf

Explores the lives of the early medieval laity beyond the interactions with churches and monasteries that dominate most of our sources.

Author : Wim Blockmans,Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000871951

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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 by Wim Blockmans,Peter Hoppenbrouwers Pdf

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague and the intellectual and cultural dynamism of the Middle Ages. The book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this, the authors cover a wide geographic expanse, including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic World, North Africa and Asia. This fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect moves toward teaching the Middle Ages in a global context and contains a wealth of new features and topics that help to bring this fascinating era to life, including: West Europe’s catching up through intensive exchange with the Mediterranean Islamic world growth of autonomous cities and civic liberties emergence of an empirical and rational worldview climate change and intercontinental pandemics European exchange with Africa and Asia chapter introductions to support students’ understanding of the topics a fully updated glossary to give modern students the confidence and language to discuss medieval history Clear and stimulating, the fourth edition of Introduction to Medieval Europe is the ideal companion to studying the entirety of medieval history at undergraduate level.

Author : Jörg Wettlaufer,David Nash,Jan Frode Hatlen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000852387

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Honor and Shame in Western History by Jörg Wettlaufer,David Nash,Jan Frode Hatlen Pdf

This book covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in European historical societies: history of law and literature, social and ancient history, as well as theoretical contributions on the state of research and the importance of honor and shame in traditional societies. Honor and shame in Western History brings together 14 texts of interdisciplinary scholars from Europe and North America. It covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in historical societies. The contributions cover periods of Western history from Greek and Roman times to the nineteenth century and many of them integrate the concept of a "deep history" of honor and shame in social interaction. The book is essential for a broad audience interested in social history and the history of emotions.

Author : Stefan Jurasinski,Lisi Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840903

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The Laws of Alfred by Stefan Jurasinski,Lisi Oliver Pdf

The first critical edition of Alfred the Great's domboc ('book of laws') in over a century.

Author : Tom Lambert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191089602

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Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England by Tom Lambert Pdf

Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England explores English legal culture and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the essentially pre-Christian laws enshrined in writing by King Æthelberht of Kent in c. 600 and working forward to the Norman Conquest of 1066. It attempts to escape the traditional retrospective assumptions of legal history, focused on the late twelfth-century Common Law, and to establish a new interpretative framework for the subject, more sensitive to contemporary cultural assumptions and practical realities. The focus of the volume is on the maintenance of order: what constituted good order; what forms of wrongdoing were threatening to it; what roles kings, lords, communities, and individuals were expected to play in maintaining it; and how that worked in practice. Its core argument is that the Anglo-Saxons had a coherent, stable, and enduring legal order that lacks modern analogies: it was neither state-like nor stateless, and needs to be understood on its own terms rather than as a variant or hybrid of these models. Tom Lambert elucidates a distinctively early medieval understanding of the tension between the interests of individuals and communities, and a vision of how that tension ought to be managed that, strikingly, treats strongly libertarian and communitarian features as complementary. Potentially violent, honour-focused feuding was an integral aspect of legitimate legal practice throughout the period, but so too was fearsome punishment for forms of wrongdoing judged socially threatening. Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England charts the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice, presenting a picture of increasingly ambitious and effective royal legal innovation that relied more on the cooperation of local communal assemblies than kings' sparse and patchy network of administrative officials.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004366374

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Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

The essays in this Festschrift for William Ian Miller reflect the honorand's wide-ranging interest in legal history, Icelandic sagas, anger and violence, and contemporary popular culture.

Author : Kim Esmark,Lars Hermanson,Hans Jacob Orning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000037340

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Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume II by Kim Esmark,Lars Hermanson,Hans Jacob Orning Pdf

Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250, Volume II explores the structures and workings of social networks within the elites of medieval Scandinavia to reveal the intricate relationship between power and status. Section one of this volume categorizes basic types of personal bonds, both vertical and horizontal, while section two charts patterns of local, regional and transnational elite networks from wide-scope, longitudinal perspectives. Finally, the third section turns to case-studies of networks in action, analyzing strategies and transactions implied by uses of social resources in specific micro-political settings. A concluding chapter discusses how social power in the North compared to wider European experiences. A wide range of sources and methodologies is applied to reveal how networks were established, maintained, and put to use – and how they transformed in processes of centralizing power and formalizing hierarchies. The engagement with and analysis of intriguing primary source material has produced a key teaching tool for instructors and essential reading for students interested in the workings of medieval Scandinavia, elite class structures, and Social and Political History more generally.

Author : Benjamin Porat,David C. Flatto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317200406

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The Jewish Law Annual Volume 22 by Benjamin Porat,David C. Flatto Pdf

Volume 22 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1–21 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law. This volume features articles on rabbinic criminal law, tort law, jurisprudence, and judicial practice.

Author : Rory Naismith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691177403

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Making Money in the Early Middle Ages by Rory Naismith Pdf

An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe Between the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was scarce and high in value, difficult for the majority of the population to make use of. And yet, as Rory Naismith shows in this illuminating study, coined money was made and used throughout early medieval Europe. It was, he argues, a powerful tool for articulating people’s place in economic and social structures and an important gauge for levels of economic complexity. Working from the premise that using coined money carried special significance when there was less of it around, Naismith uses detailed case studies from the Mediterranean and northern Europe to propose a new reading of early medieval money as a point of contact between economic, social, and institutional history. Naismith examines structural issues, including the mining and circulation of metal and the use of bullion and other commodities as money, and then offers a chronological account of monetary development, discussing the post-Roman period of gold coinage, the rise of the silver penny in the seventh century and the reconfiguration of elite power in relation to coinage in the tenth and eleventh centuries. In the process, he counters the conventional view of early medieval currency as the domain only of elite gift-givers and intrepid long-distance traders. Even when there were few coins in circulation, Naismith argues, the ways they were used—to give gifts, to pay rents, to spend at markets—have much to tell us.

Author : Robert Franks
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725204430

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A History of the Doctrine of the Work of Christ by Robert Franks Pdf