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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465064503321

Autore

Smail Daniel Lord

Titolo

The Consumption of Justice : Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423 / / Daniel Lord Smail

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2013]

©2003

ISBN

0-8014-6877-9

0-8014-6878-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past

Disciplina

340.5/6/0944912

Soggetti

Justice, Administration of - France - Marseille - History

HISTORY

Europe / France

Marseille (France) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1. Using the Courts -- 2. Structures of Hatred -- 3. The Pursuit of Debt -- 4. Bony and Bona -- 5. The Public Archive -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Nature and Format of the Record -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts (the consumers of justice) and explains why men and women chose to invest resources in the law.Daniel Lord Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The



emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures.