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Sexuality, law and legal practice and the Reformation in Norway /

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

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riisøy, Anne Irene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Northern world ; v. 44.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Previous Research; Research Questions, Lay-Out, and Terminology; Th e Sources; PART A CRIMINALISATION OF SEXUAL ACTS; Chapter One New Laws, Old Principles; Chapter Two Individual Criminal Responsibility; Chapter Th ree Th e Final Criminalisation of Sexual Acts in the High Middle Ages; PART B PUNISHMENT; Chapter Four Capital Punishment; Chapter Five Fines and Cone scation of Property; Chapter Six From Penance to Church Discipline; Chapter Seven d e Reward of Sin; PART C GENDER EQUALITY?; Chapter Eight Who Was Punished, and for What?