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What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative history of lawlessness and criminal justice. Drawing on the real-life stories of ordinary men and women who often found themselves at the sharp end of the law, he shows how it was often one rule for the rich and another for the poor in a tangled web of judicial corruption.

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"has plenty to offer the voyeur as well as those with a scholarly interest...engagingly accessible...balances breadth of coverage with depth of interest by challenging other historians" BBC History "an essential introduction for undergraduates"English Historical Review

Table of Contents

List of illustrations ix
Preface xi
Editor’s Preface xiii
Abbreviations xv
1. Courts, Crimes and Causes 1
2. Judicial Corruption 30
3. Late Medieval Crime Waves? 47
4. Women and Crime 73
5. Outside the Law? Avengers, Clerics, Students 96
6. Punishment 118
7. Crime in Literature 144
Conclusion 162
Bibliographical note 164
Index

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 10/24/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780582326767
      978-0582326767
      ISBN-10 0582326761
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      Crime and criminology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative history of lawlessness and criminal justice. Drawing on the real-life stories of ordinary men and women who often found themselves at the sharp end of the law, he shows how it was often one rule for the rich and another for the poor in a tangled web of judicial corruption.

      Trade Review
      "has plenty to offer the voyeur as well as those with a scholarly interest...engagingly accessible...balances breadth of coverage with depth of interest by challenging other historians" BBC History "an essential introduction for undergraduates"English Historical Review

      Table of Contents

      List of illustrations ix
      Preface xi
      Editor’s Preface xiii
      Abbreviations xv
      1. Courts, Crimes and Causes 1
      2. Judicial Corruption 30
      3. Late Medieval Crime Waves? 47
      4. Women and Crime 73
      5. Outside the Law? Avengers, Clerics, Students 96
      6. Punishment 118
      7. Crime in Literature 144
      Conclusion 162
      Bibliographical note 164
      Index

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