Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England

Klappentext Moving back and forth between a broad overview of 300 years of legal history and the details of specific disputes, Hyams attends to the demands of individuals who believed that they had been aggrieved and sought remedy. He shows how individuals perceived particular acts of violence and responded to them. These reactions, in turn, sparked central efforts to manage disputes and thereby establish law and order. Respectable litigation, however, never eclipsed the danger of direct action, often violent and physical. Zusammenfassung Duels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and orderly British ways of settling differences. In this surprising work of social and legal history, Paul R. Hyams reveals a post-Conquest...

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• Authors: Paul R. Hyams, Paul R. (Director Hyams
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2003
• EAN: 9780801439964
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-3996-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 243 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past; Conjunctions of Religion & Pow; Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past; Conjunctions of Religion and P
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Law