04420nam 2200745 450 991081907940332120200520144314.00-8014-7991-60-8014-5575-80-8014-5576-610.7591/9780801455766(CKB)3710000000379935(EBL)3138708(SSID)ssj0001460972(PQKBManifestationID)12562001(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001460972(PQKBWorkID)11470351(PQKB)11358534(MiAaPQ)EBC3138708(OCoLC)905638597(MdBmJHUP)muse58555(DE-B1597)496475(OCoLC)1042020513(OCoLC)1046611706(OCoLC)1047004750(OCoLC)1049625516(OCoLC)1054878259(DE-B1597)9780801455766(Au-PeEL)EBL3138708(CaPaEBR)ebr11034361(CaONFJC)MIL759702(EXLCZ)99371000000037993520140730d2015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHonor, vengeance, and social trouble pardon letters in the Burgundian Low Countries /Peter Arnade and Walter PrevenierIthaca :Cornell University Press,2015.1 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-336-28416-1 0-8014-5346-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Social discord : disputes, vendettas, and political clients -- Violence, honor, and sexuality -- Marriage conflicts and the pardon letter -- Actress, wife, or lover? : Maria van der Hoeven defamed and defended.Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters-petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries and duchy of Burgundy produced a large cache of these petitions, from both major cities (Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Dijon) and rural communities. In Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble, Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier present the first study in English of these letters to explore and interrogate the boundaries between these sources' internal, discursive properties and the social world beyond the written text.Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble takes the reader out onto the streets and into the taverns, homes, and workplaces of the Burgundian territories, charting the most pressing social concerns of the day: everything from family disputes and vendettas to marital infidelity and property conflicts-and, more generally, the problems of public violence, abduction and rape, and the role of honor and revenge in adjudicating disputes. Arnade and Prevenier examine why the right to pardon was often enacted by the Burgundian dukes and how it came to compete with more traditional legal means of resolving disputes. In addition, they consider the pardon letter as a historical source, highlighting the limitations and pitfalls of relying on documents that are, by their very nature, narratives shaped by the petitioner to seek a favored outcome. The book also includes a detailed case study of a female actress turned prostitute.An example of microhistory at its best, Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble will challenge scholars while being accessible to students in courses on medieval and early modern Europe or on historiography.Sociological jurisprudenceBenelux countriesHistoryTo 1500SourcesPardonBenelux countriesHistoryTo 1500SourcesCrimeBenelux countriesHistoryTo 1500SourcesNetherlandsHistoryHouse of Burgundy, 1384-1477SourcesBenelux countriesHistoryTo 1500SourcesSociological jurisprudenceHistoryPardonHistoryCrimeHistory364.6/3Arnade Peter J.1650252Prevenier WalterMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819079403321Honor, vengeance, and social trouble3999528UNINA