Slave voices and experiences in the later medieval Europe
October 2023
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Journal article
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History Compass
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
St Wilgefortis and Her/Their Beard: The Devotions of Unhappy Wives and Non-Binary People
June 2023
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History Workshop Journal
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
NOSTALGIA AND (PRE‐)MODERNITY
June 2023
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History and Theory
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Frying Pans, Limpets, Donkeys and Becs-jaunes: Thinking about Violence in Late Medieval Universities
January 2023
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Journal article
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Global Intellectual History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, Violence Research, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Punishment and Medieval Education, by Ben Parsons
November 2020
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Other
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Politics of City and Nation
January 2020
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Chapter
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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries , by Matthew S. Champion
September 2019
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Other
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Slavery After Rome, 500–1100, by Alice Rio
August 2019
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Other
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Enough-ness in the Later Middle Ages
January 2019
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Chapter
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Just Enough
4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies
Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1750, by Michelle A. McKinley
June 2018
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Introduction: Property and ownership: An overview
January 2018
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Chapter
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Legalism: Property and Ownership
Beginning with theories of absolute property, this introduction considers the merits of a more composite view, namely the ‘bundle of rights’ concept. Anthropologists discuss the relationships between people at the heart of property regimes, but personhood must also be seen as embedded in the things owned. The ideas of rules and control are key, and the concept of control at a distance provides useful conceptual purchase. Property is a complex idea to articulate, and natural law, religious and political frameworks of property are interwoven. Moreover, property is shaped by economic prerogatives, and its management shapes the relationship between the individual and the community, and the preservation of common resources. Property is, then, thoroughly embedded in social contexts, which in turn can render property highly unstable and contingent. It is precisely because of these kinds of tensions that legalism is so often invoked in order to manage and even create property relations.
Legalism: Property and Ownership
January 2018
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Edited book
In this volume, ownership is defined as the simple fact of being able to describe something as ‘mine’ or ‘yours’, and property is distinguished as the discursive field which allows the articulation of attendant rights, relationships and obligations. Property is often articulated through legalism as way of thinking which appeals to rules and to generalising concepts as a way of understanding, responding to, and managing the world around one. An Aristotelian perspective suggests that ownership is the natural state of things and a prerequisite of a true sense of self. An alternative perspective from legal theory puts law at the heart of the origins of property. However, both these points of view are problematic in a wider context, the latter because it rests heavily on Roman law. Anthropological and historical studies enable us to interrogate these assumptions. The articles here, ranging from Roman provinces to modern-day piracy in Somalia, address questions such as: How are legal property regimes intertwined with economic, moral-ethical, and political prerogatives? How far do the assumptions of western philosophical tradition explain property and ownership in other societies? Is the ‘bundle of rights’ a useful way to think about property? How does legalism negotiate property relationships and interests between communities and individuals? How does the legalism of property respond to the temporalities and materialities of the objects owned? How are property regimes managed by states, and what kinds of conflicts are thus generated?.
Literarische Texte und Darstellungen
January 2018
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Chapter
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Universitäre Gelehrtenkultur vom 13.–16. Jahrhundert
The Idea of a Moral Economy: Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution and Prescription, by Lawrin Armstrong
December 2017
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
People as Property in Medieval Dubrovnik
November 2017
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Chapter
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Legalism Property and Ownership
"The book is in many ways the product of wonderfully stimulating weekly discussions and papers at the Oxford Legalism seminar, now in its ninth year .
Law
Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100–1220, by Laura Cleaver
November 2017
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Anger in Inferno and Purgatorio
September 2017
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Chapter
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Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins
CONTENTS: John Took (U College London), Dante, pride and the gentle dialectic of love; Daragh O'Connell (UCC), Envy at the court of vice; Stefano Cracolici (U Durham), Dante on wrath; Hannah Skoda (St John's College, Oxford), Anger in ...
Literary Criticism
Collective violence and popular justice in the later Middle Ages
March 2017
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Chapter
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Global Lynching and Collective Violence Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
A History of Balance, 1250–1375: The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and its Impact on Thought, by Joel Kaye
February 2017
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Collective violence and popular justice in the later middle ages
January 2017
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Chapter
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Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 2: The Americas and Europe
Collective Violence in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Oxford
January 2017
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Chapter
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Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe From the Middle Ages to the Present
This edited collection studies the role of students as a critical mass within their urban context and society through examples of student revolts from the foundation period of universities in the Middle Ages until today, covering the whole ...
City and town life
Introduction
January 2017
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Book
Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe
January 2017
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Chapter
A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner, by Steven Bednarski
December 2016
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Conflict, Friction and Contact in Medieval Oxford
November 2016
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Chapter
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Defining and Redefining Space in the English-Speaking World Contacts, Frictions, Clashes
Focusing on the material conditions of such contacts, frictions, and clashes, this volume particularly explores their essentially spatial nature, highlighting the stakes of such definitions and redefinitions of space.
Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries. By Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2015) 244pp. $79.95 cloth $26.95 paper
May 2016
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History
4303 Historical Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 5002 History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Student violence in fifteenth-century Paris and Oxford
January 2016
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Chapter
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Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe
The Peace of Westphalia was a settlement between individuals, primarily the emperor and the kings of France and Sweden, each with a commitment to securing a lasting Christian peace. Accordingly, the Thirty Years War has long been considered exceptional, as the location of a revolution in the technology and in the methods and scale of warfare. One can detect in the work on violence and warfare, in other words, the influence of, even a sort of interdisciplinary affinity with, sociology. If a theory of early-modern warfare could help us to navigate these murky waters, it still needs to be informed by the best historical work. The Renaissance and Reformation had given Europe a rich political vocabulary that actors invoked to promote their own, usually mundane, interests. As Joanna Bourke says, the best military history proves the aphorism that historians are better than their theories.
Heresy, Inquisition and Life Cycle in Medieval Languedoc, by Chris Sparks
October 2015
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Differentiation or Destruction? The Effects of Violence on Human and Social Bodies in Dante's Commedia
September 2015
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Chapter
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War and Peace in Dante
This volume opens with John Barnes exploring how Dante’s views on and experience of war are reflected in his literary works. Joseph Canning, addressing Dante’s justification of the authority of the Roman Empire, assesses the compatibility of the poet’s view with established just war theory. Hannah Skoda demonstrates that in Inferno Dante seems to dwell on a paradigm where war produces discord, tumult and chaos. John Barnes then suggests that the episode at the gate of the City of Dis has much in common with a siege. Stephen Milner highlights the polar opposition between the stance of the rhetorician Brunetto Latini and that of the exiled poet who had no use for rhetoric in any true rhetorical situation. Spencer Pearce, shifting the focus to inner conflict, delineates Dante’s project of self-creation, finding it modelled in the experience of the souls in his Purgatory. Matthew Kempshall traces Dante’s theoretical understanding of peace back to a particular reading of Aristotle and Augustine which he shared with Remigio de’ Girolami. Elena Lombardi probes Dante’s engagement with various forms of peace, investigating how peace may or may not be a satisfaction of desire. Vittorio Montemaggi argues that the full boldness and complexity of Dante’s presentation of peace in the Commedia is best appreciated from a theological perspective. Lastly, Pamela Williams, comparing Dante’s view of Christian peace with Petrarch’s, finds that it embraces both heavenly peace and an aspiration of the Church Militant.
Literary Criticism
The Letter Collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise, ed. David Luscombe, tr. Betty Radice
August 2015
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician, by Elizabeth Eva Leach
April 2015
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Emotions and Health, 1200-1700, ed. Elena Carrera
February 2015
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The Queen’s Hand: Power and Authority in the Reign of Berenguela of Castile, by Janna Bianchini
December 2014
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Realites, images, ecritures de la prison au Moyen Age
July 2014
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Journal article
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French Studies
4702 Cultural Studies, 4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies
Outlawry, Governance and Law in Medieval England
January 2014
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Journal article
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REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE
Reviews and Short Notices
January 2014
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Journal article
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History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Richard Kirwan, ed. Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. ix + 220 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3797-0.
January 2014
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Journal article
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Renaissance Quarterly
4705 Literary Studies, 36 Creative Arts and Writing, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism
Approches techniques, litteraires et historiques: IIe journee d'etudes anglo-normandes, organisee par l'Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Palais de l'Institut, 21 mai 2010.
October 2013
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Journal article
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French Studies
4702 Cultural Studies, 4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies
Student Violence in Fifteent-Century Paris and Oxford
August 2013
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Chapter
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Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe
Interest in the history of violence has increased dramatically over the last ten years and recent studies have demonstrated the productive potential for further inquiry in this field. The early modern period is particularly ripe for further investigation because of the pervasiveness of violence. Certain countries may have witnessed a drop in the number of recorded homicides during this period, yet homicide is not the only marker of a violent society. This volume presents a range of contributions that look at various aspects of violence from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, from student violence and misbehaviour in fifteenth-century Oxford and Paris to the depiction of war wounds in the English civil wars. The book is divided into three sections, each clustering chapters around the topics of interpersonal and ritual violence, war, and justice and the law. Informed by the disciplines of anthropology, criminology, the history of art, literary studies, and sociology, as well as history, the contributors examine all forms of violence including manslaughter, assault, rape, riots, war and justice. Previous studies have tended to emphasise long-term trends in violent behaviour but one must always be attentive to the specificity of violence and these essays reveal what it meant in particular places and at particular times.
Medieval Violence: Physical Brutality in Northern France, 1270-1330
April 2013
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Book
This book provides a detailed analysis of medieval brutality, focusing upon Paris and Artois, a thriving region of northern France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It examines how violence was conceptualised in this period, and uses this framework to investigate street violence, tavern brawls, urban uprisings, student misbehaviour and domestic violence. The interactions between these various forms of violence are examined in order to demonstrate the complex and communicative nature of medieval brutality. What is often dismissed as dysfunctional behaviour is shown to have been highly strategic and socially integral. Violence was a performance, and one dependent upon the spaces in which it took place; indeed, brutality is shown to have been contingent upon social and cultural structures. At the same time, the common stereotype of the thoughtlessly brutal Middle Ages is challenged, as attitudes towards violence are revealed to have been complex, troubled and ambivalent. Whether violence could function effectively as a form of communication which could order and harmonise society, or whether it inevitably degenerated into chaotic disorder where meaning was multivalent and incomprehensible, remained a matter of ongoing debate in a variety of contexts. Using a variety of source material, including legal records, popular literature, and sermons, the book explores experiences of, and attitudes towards, violence, and highlights profound contemporary ambiguity concerning its nature and legitimacy.
Preface and Acknowledgements
January 2013
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Book
Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc: Fear Not the Madness of the Raging Mob
January 2013
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Representations of Disability in the Thirteenth-Century Miracles de Saint Louis
January 2013
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Chapter
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Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations
What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness, as well as perceived disabilities such as madness, pregnancy and age. Adopting a ground-breaking new approach to the study of disability in the medieval period, this provocative book will interest medievalists and scholars of disability throughout history.
La Vierge et la Vieille: L'expertise féminine au XIVe siècle
October 2012
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Chapter
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Experts et expertise au Moyen Age : Consilium quaeritur a perito
Introduction
October 2012
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Chapter
A Historian's Perspective on the Present Volume
August 2012
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Chapter
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Legalism
Legalism
August 2012
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Book
What is legalism and what counts as law? How do legal concepts work in a range of historical and ethnographic settings?
History
Legalism, Anthropology and History
August 2012
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Book
‘Legalism’ is used in this volume as a non-pretentious term for themes that recur both in societies that conceptualize law discretely and in others that decline to do so. These themes include an appeal to rules that are distinct from practice, the explicit use of generalizing concepts, and a disposition to address in such terms the conduct of human life. They do not always coincide with what Joseph Raz called a ‘legal system’; far less do they account for everything one might call ‘law’. This chapter does not impose a model, therefore, but tries by stages to isolate a topic from existing literature. If law suggests transcendent values in terms of which conduct is judged, legalism spells out the terms employed, and it directs us towards classification more than towards power. The discussions cover law and dispute settlement; empiricism, society, and legalism; complex systems; one-off laws within a ‘legal community’ that is centred on something like a state; and law and conceptual order.
Contact and Exchange in Later Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Malcolm Vale
Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France
January 2012
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Journal article
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Legal Performances in Late Medieval France
January 2012
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Chapter
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Legalism: Anthropology and History
Representations of disability in the thriteenth-century Miracles de Saint Louis
May 2010
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Chapter
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Disability in the Middle Ages
This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address ...
History
Saint Louis
January 2009
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Journal article
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Violent discipline or disciplining violence?: Experience and reception of domestic violence in late thirteenth- and early fourtheen-century Paris and Picardy
January 2009
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Journal article
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Cultural and Social History
This article explores medieval French attitudes towards physical intra-familial violence, and asks why some acts of brutality were defined as reprehensible and deviant 'violence', while others were lauded as normal patriarchal discipline of a deviant victim. Using legal records from Picardy and Paris, repertoires of violent gestures are analysed and set in the context of the interplay of the practice of domestic violence, canon law discussions, and contemporary legal proceedings. Thirteenth-century legal and moral discourse condemned excessive domestic violence; yet, paradoxically, the power of violence to communicate and to correct was widely acknowledged. The article concludes by exploring popular literature's engagement with this ambivalence.
