Consumption of Justice - Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 12641423

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Lord Smail is Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille and coeditor, with Thelma Fenster, of Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe , both from Cornell. Klappentext Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures. Zusammenfassung Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Using the Courts2. Structures of Hatred3. The Pursuit of Debt4. Body and Bona 5. The Public ArchiveConclusion Appendix: The Nature and Format of the Record Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Daniel Lord Smail, Daniel Lord (Associate Professor of History Smail, SMAIL DANIEL LORD ASSOCIATE PROF
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2003
• EAN: 9780801441059
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4105-9
• No. of pages: 296
• 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
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