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Sanctuary and crime in the middle ages, 400-1500 /

"Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval legal tradition afforded protections to fugitive criminals who took sanctuary in churches. Sanctuary-seeking criminals might have been required to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shoemaker, Karl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Just ideas.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Authority, intercession, and penance
  • Roman aristocratic traditions, imperial penal law, and sanctuary
  • Reassessing early medieval sanctuary legislation
  • The transmission and reception of sanctuary legislation in the early middle ages
  • Sanctuary, blood feud, and the strength of Anglo-Saxon government
  • Sanctuary in the century after the Norman conquest
  • Sanctuary and Angevin law reforms
  • The role of canon law in the destruction of sanctuary.