Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc
Biographical note
Patricia Turning,/b>, Ph.D. (UC-Davis, 2007), teaches medieval and early modern European history courses at Arizona State University. She has published articles on medieval crime and punishment, and her next project is an examination of the experiences of women in pre-modern prisons.
Readership
Those interested in medieval crime and punishment, popular protest, medieval cities, the process of state-building at the end of the Middle Ages or the evolution of medieval France, and the institutionalization of medieval law will profit from this book.
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Center and Periphery honors Willliam Chester Jordan on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The essays by his former doctoral students examine the complexity of negotiating power at the center and margins of society in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.
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A key case-study and argument for the wider relevance of Ireland in understanding the political ambitions and frustrations of the English crown, this book interrogates afresh evidence for Ireland's liminality and barbarity, c.1000-1500, with in-depth contributions by historians, archaeologists, ...
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From an examination of medieval London's Husting wills, Daughters of London offers a new framework for considering urban women’s experiences as daughters. The wills reveal daughters equipped with economic opportunities through bequests of real estate and movable property.
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the construction of the late medieval chronicle in Iberia by means of an examination of eighteen different late medieval accounts of the reign of the Visigothic king Wamba.
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This essay collection examines aspects of mental impairment from a variety of angles to unearth medieval perspectives on mental affliction. This volume on madness in the Middle Ages elucidates how medieval society conceptualized mental afflictions, especially in law and culture.
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The seventeen authors of this volume present an all-round picture of the person, the work, and the influence of the Russian medievalist Aron Gurevich who introduced innovative approaches to scholarship against all odds.
Professor Janos Bak, Central European University
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Based on case studies from across Europe including its ‘peripheries,’ this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the notion of memory in the Middle Ages concentrating on contructing memory both as individual competence and as part of a society’s identity.
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Drawing on spiritual and legal sources, this book provides a novel perspective on how late medieval Christianity problematized parishioners' use of violence and how parishioners tried to reconcile the demands of their faith with cultural norms that honored violent conduct.
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Drawing on a wide range of legal and literary sources, this book offers a comprehensive investigation into the acceptability of violence in marriage at a time when social expectations of gender and marriage were in transition.
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The volume explores late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, decision-making, legal and ethical issues, as well as selected aspects of production, consumption and market integration. The essays span a variety of local, regional, and ...
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