Medieval Public Justice

Informationen zum Autor Massimo Vallerani teaches medieval history at the University of Turin. Sarah Rubin Blanshei is dean of the college and professor of history emerita of Agnes Scott College. Klappentext In a series of essays based on surviving documents of actual court practices from Perugia and Bologna! as well as laws! statutes! and theoretical works from the 12th and 13th centuries! Massimo Vallerani offers important historical insights into the establishment of a trial-based public justice system. Challenging the long-standing evolutionary paradigm of medieval legal procedures! Vallerani argues that public justice was not the triumph of strong inquisitorial procedure over weak accusatory procedure! but rather a process in which the two procedures developed in tandem. Zusammenfassung In a series of essays based on surviving documents of actual court practices

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• Authors: Massimo Vallerani, Massimo/ Blanshei Vallerani
• Assisted by: Sarah Rubin Blanshei (Translation)
• Publisher: Catholic univ of america press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2012
• EAN: 9780813219714
• ISBN: 978-0-8132-1971-4
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Studies in Medieval & Early Mo; Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law; Studies in Medieval & Early Mo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology