Description
Book SynopsisThis book is about trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries, providing a rounded view of trials conducted according to different procedures within contrasting legal systems, including English common law and Roman canon law. -- .
Trade Review'A number of excellent, first-rate contributions have been assembled for this volume.'
Dr Paul Brand, All Souls College, Oxford
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
1. What is a trial? – Joseph Jaconelli
2. The role of amateur and professional judges in the royal courts of medieval England – Anthony Musson
3. Was the jury ever self-informing? – Daniel Klerman
4. Trials in manorial courts in late medieval England – Maureen Mulholland
5. Judges and trials in the English ecclesiastical courts – R. H. Helmholz
6. The attempted trial of Boniface VIII for heresy – Jeffrey Denton
7. Reasonable doubt: Defences advanced in early modern sodomy trials in Geneva – William G. Naphy
8. Testifying to the self: nuns’ narratives in early modern Venice – Mary Laven
9. The Trial of Giorgio Moreto before the Inquisition in Venice, 1589 – Brian Pullan
Index
