Rancor & reconciliation in medieval England / Paul R. Hyams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyams, Paul R.

Series:

Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past

Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--England--History.

Law.

Reconciliation.

History.

England.

Vendetta--England--History--To 1500.

Vendetta.

Reconciliation--History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 344 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Rancor and reconciliation in medieval England

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Part I. Approaches to the Study of Wrong

Chapter 1. Understanding of Feud and Friendship 3

Chapter 2. Social Emotions in a Culture of Vengeance 34

Part II. Undifferentiated Wrong and its Redress

Chapter 3. Redress for Wrong in the Governance of Late Anglo-Saxon England 71

Chapter 4. Vengeance and Peacemaking in the Century after the Norman Conquest 111

Chapter 5. Common Law and Central Order in Angevin England 155

Part III. An Enmity Culture: Writs, Wrongs, and Vengeance in the Age of the Common Law

Chapter 6. Wrongs and Their Righting in the Early Common Law 189

Chapter 7. The Differentiation of Wrongs: Trespass and the Appeal 216

Chapter 8. Was There an Enmity Culture in Thirteenth-Century England? 242.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.

ISBN:

0801439965

OCLC:

52091912