Medieval crime and social control / Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanawalt, Barbara A., 1941-

Wallace, David, 1954-

Series:

Medieval cultures ; v. 16.

Medieval cultures ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Europe--History.

Crime.

Social control--Europe--History.

Social control.

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816689255

0816689253

OCLC:

476094592