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Medieval Crime and Social Control
Crime is a matter of interpretation, especially in the Middle Ages, when societies faced with new ideas and pressures were continually forced to rethink what a crime was--and what was a crime. These essays reveal how various forces in medieval society interacted and competed in interpreting and infl...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1998.
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Table des matières:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Fear of Crime in Late Medieval France; 2. Needful Things; 3. In Defense of Revenge; 4. "The Doom of Resoun": Accommodating Lay Interpretation in Late Medieval England; 5. Chaucer's Hard Cases; 6. The "Unfaithful Wife" in Medieval Spanish Literature and Law; 7. The Rights of Medieval English Women: Crime and the Issue of Representation; 8. Violence against Women in Fifteenth-Century France and the Burgundian State; 9. The Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns; 10. Slaughter and Romance: Hunting Reserves in Late Medieval England.
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