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Wergild, Compensation and Penance : the Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2021.
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| Colección: | Medieval Law and Its Practice Ser. ;
volume 31 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004466128 9004466126 |