Law, laity and solidarities : essays in honour of Susan Reynolds / edited by Pauline Stafford, Janet L. Nelson and Jane Martindale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stafford, Pauline, editor.

Nelson, Janet L. (Janet Laughland), 1942- editor.

Martindale, Jane, editor.

Reynolds, Susan, 1929- honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law, Medieval.

Customary law--Europe--History.

Customary law.

Europe--Politics and government--476-1492.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The primary focus of this collection by leading medieval historians is the laity, in particular the ideas and ideals of lay people. The contributors explore lay attidues as expressed in legal cases, charters, chronicles and collective activities.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Writing about Charles Martel / Paul Fouracre

2. Peers in the early middle ages / Janet L. Nelson

3. Stepmothers in Frankish legal life / Brigitte Kasten

4. Political ideas in late tenth-century England: charters as evidence / Pauline Stafford

5. Medieval mentalities and primitive legal practice / Michael Clanchy

6. The problem of treason: the trial of Daire le Roux / Stephen D. White

7. Between law and politics: The judicial duel under the Angevin kings / Jane Martindale

8. Local custom in early common law / Paul Brand

9. 'Slaves of the Normans'? Gerald de Barri and regnal solidarity in early thirteenth-century England / John Gillingham

10. Kinsmen, neighbours and communities in Wales and the Western British Isles, c.1100-c.1400 / Rees Davies

11. Lay kinship solidarity and Papal law / David d'Avray

12. Laity, laicization and Philip the Fair of France / Elizabeth R. Brown

13. Lay solidarities: the wards of medieval London / Caroline Barron

14. Language, laughter and lay solidarities: an inquiry into the decline of pilgrimage and crusading / Charles T. Wood

15. Lay/clerical distinctions in Early India / Romila Tharpar

A bibliography of Susan Reynold's work

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 31, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526148285

1526148285

OCLC:

1149149866