LEADER 04420nam 2200745 450 001 9910819079403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-7991-6 010 $a0-8014-5575-8 010 $a0-8014-5576-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801455766 035 $a(CKB)3710000000379935 035 $a(EBL)3138708 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001460972 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12562001 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001460972 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11470351 035 $a(PQKB)11358534 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138708 035 $a(OCoLC)905638597 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58555 035 $a(DE-B1597)496475 035 $a(OCoLC)1042020513 035 $a(OCoLC)1046611706 035 $a(OCoLC)1047004750 035 $a(OCoLC)1049625516 035 $a(OCoLC)1054878259 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801455766 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138708 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11034361 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL759702 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000379935 100 $a20140730d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHonor, vengeance, and social trouble $epardon letters in the Burgundian Low Countries /$fPeter Arnade and Walter Prevenier 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-336-28416-1 311 $a0-8014-5346-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSocial 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. 330 $aAmong 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. 606 $aSociological jurisprudence$zBenelux countries$xHistory$yTo 1500$vSources 606 $aPardon$zBenelux countries$xHistory$yTo 1500$vSources 606 $aCrime$zBenelux countries$xHistory$yTo 1500$vSources 607 $aNetherlands$xHistory$yHouse of Burgundy, 1384-1477$vSources 607 $aBenelux countries$xHistory$yTo 1500$vSources 615 0$aSociological jurisprudence$xHistory 615 0$aPardon$xHistory 615 0$aCrime$xHistory 676 $a364.6/3 700 $aArnade$b Peter J.$01650252 702 $aPrevenier$b Walter 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819079403321 996 $aHonor, vengeance, and social trouble$93999528 997 $aUNINA