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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451741103321

Titolo

Medieval crime and social control [[electronic resource] /] / Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8166-8925-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 16

Altri autori (Persone)

HanawaltBarbara

WallaceDavid <1937->

Disciplina

364.94/09/02

Soggetti

Crime - Europe - History

Social control - Europe - History

Social history - Medieval, 500-1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 EnglandContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 influencing mechanisms for social control.