{"product_id":"law-and-the-illicit-in-medieval-europe-9780812221060","title":"Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law, legal procedure, and the ideals of justice and equity. Many of our most important modern institutions and legal conceptions grew out of medieval law in its myriad forms (Roman, canon, common, customary, and feudal).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstitutional structures represent only a small portion of the wider cultural field affected by—and affecting—law. In \u003ci\u003eLaw and the Illicit in Medieval Europe\u003c\/i\u003e such distinguished scholars as Patrick Geary, William Chester Jordan, R. I. Moore, Edward M. Peters, and Susan Mosher Stuard make the case that the development of law is deeply implicated in the growth of medieval theology and Christian doctrine; the construction of discourses on sin, human nature, honor, and virtue; the multiplying forms governing chivalry, demeanor, and social interaction, including\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Reordering of Law and the Illicit in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Europe\u003cbr\u003e —Edward M. Peters\u003cbr\u003e PART I: LEGAL SYSTEMS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: A Fresh Look at Medieval Sanctuary\u003cbr\u003e —William Chester Jordan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Heresy as Politics and the Politics of Heresy, 1022-1180\u003cbr\u003e —R. I. Moore\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Legal Ethics: A Medieval Ghost Story\u003cbr\u003e —James Brundage\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Ties That Bind: Legal Status and Imperial Power\u003cbr\u003e —James Muldoon\u003cbr\u003e PART II: WRITING THE LAW\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Licit and Illicit in the Yarnall Collection at the University of Pennsylvania: Pages from the \u003ci\u003eDecretals\u003c\/i\u003e of Pope Gregory IX\u003cbr\u003e —Robert Somerville\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Judicial Violence and Torture in the Carolingian Empire\u003cbr\u003e —Patrick Geary\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: The Ambiguity of Treason in Anglo-Norman-French Law, c. 1150-c. 1250\u003cbr\u003e —Stephen D. White\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Illicit Religion: The Case of Friar Matthew Grabow, O.P.\u003cbr\u003e —John Van Engen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Marriage, Concubinage, and the Law\u003cbr\u003e —Ruth Mazo Karras\u003cbr\u003e PART III: CASES AND TRIALS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Crusaders' Rights Revisited: The Use and Abuse of Crusader Privileges in Early Thirteenth-Century France\u003cbr\u003e —Jessalynn Bird\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Learned Opinion and Royal Justice: The Role of Paris Masters of Theology During the Reign of Philip the Fair\u003cbr\u003e —William J. Courtenay\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Coin and Punishment in Medieval Venice\u003cbr\u003e —Alan M. Stahl\u003cbr\u003e PART IV: LAW BEYOND THE LAW\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: Licit and Illicit in the Rhetoric of the Investiture Conflict\u003cbr\u003e —Alex Novikoff\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: Satisfying the Laws: The \u003ci\u003eLegenda\u003c\/i\u003e of Maria of Venice\u003cbr\u003e —Susan Mosher Stuard\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: Canon Law and Chaucer on Licit and Illicit Magic\u003cbr\u003e —Henry Ansgar Kelly\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: Law and Science: Constructing a Border Between Licit and Illicit Knowledge in the Writings of Nicole Oresme\u003cbr\u003e —Joel Kaye\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090744602967,"sku":"9780812221060","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812221060.jpg?v=1762273299","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/law-and-the-illicit-in-medieval-europe-9780812221060","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}