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

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.94/09/02
• Soggetto topico: Crime - Europe - History; Social control - Europe - History; Social history - Medieval, 500-1500
• Altri autori: HanawaltBarbara WallaceDavid <1937->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Medieval crime and social control
• ISBN: 0-8166-8925-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784497303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Medieval cultures ; ; v. 16.