Judicial tribunals in England and Europe, 1200-1700 / edited by Maureen Mulholland and Brian Pullan; with Anne Pullan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulholland, Maureen.

Contributor:

Mulholland, Maureen, editor, contributor.

Pullan, Brian S., editor, contributor.

Pullan, Anne, editor.

Series:

Trial in history ; I.

The trial in history ; volume I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trials--England--History.

Trials.

Trials--Europe--History.

Ecclesiastical courts--England--History.

Ecclesiastical courts.

Ecclesiastical courts--Europe--History.

Administrative courts--England--History.

Administrative courts.

Administrative courts--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages) : tables; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

textfile PDF

Summary:

This book is about trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The opening chapter provides a conceptual framework both for this book and for its companion volume on the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Subsequent chapters provide a rounded view of trials conducted according to different procedures within contrasting legal systems, including English common law and Roman canon law. They consider the judges and juries and the amateur and professional advisers involved in legal processes as well as the offenders brought before the courts, with the reasons for prosecuting them and the defences they put forward. The cases examined range from a fourteenth century cause-célèbre, the attempted trial of Pope Boniface VIII for heresy, to investigations of obscure people for sexual and religious offences in the city states of Geneva and Venice. Technical terms have been cut to a minimum to ensure accessibility and appeal to lawyers, social, political and legal historians, undergraduate and postgraduates as well as general readers interested in the development of the trial through time. Domestic and international trials, 1700-2000: The trial in history, vol. II edited by Dr Rose Melikan, is also published by Manchester University Press.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Tables

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 What is a trial?

2 The role of amateur and professional judges in the royal courts of late medieval England

3 Was the jury ever self informing?

4 Trials in manorial courts in late medieval England

5 Judges and trials in the English ecclesiastical courts

6 The attempted trial of Boniface VIII for heresy

7 Reasonable doubt

8 Testifying to the self

9 The trial of Giorgio Moreto before the Inquisition in Venice, 1589

Index

Notes:

First published in print format: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

1408681555