Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales

Robin Chapman Stacey is Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is author of The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales and Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

List of contents

Introduction. Reading Law

PART I. IMAGINED LANDSCAPES

Chapter 1. Britain and Wales

Chapter 2. Court and Country

PART II. BODY AND BAWDY

Chapter 3. Bodies and Nobodies

Chapter 4. Humor and the Household

Chapter 5. Sex and Marriage

PART III. VIOLENCE

Chapter 6. Dogs in the Nighttime

Conclusion. Law and the Imagination

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Robin Chapman Stacey is Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is author of The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales and Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Chapman Stacey
• Assisted by: Ruth Mazo Karras (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780812250510
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5051-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: The Middle Ages Series; Middle Ages; Middle Ages; The Middle Ages Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries