Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern age [electronic resource] : mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses / edited by Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough.
by
Classen, Albrecht.
ISBN
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9783110294583
9781283857383
Title
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Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern age [electronic resource] : mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses / edited by Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough.
Author
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Classen, Albrecht.
Publication Information
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Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, ©2012.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (viii, 602 pages) : illustrations.
Series
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Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 11
Contents
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Introduction. Crime, transgression, and deviancy : behaviors that defines us all / Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough -- Le "crime épique" et sa punition : quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) / Bernard Ribémont -- "I know how to be a whore and thief" : the poet's reputation: troubadours, ancestors of poètes maudits? / Susanna Niiranen -- The law, letter and spirit : language, transgression and justice in three Medieval German epic poems / Christopher R. Clason -- Crime, punishment and the hybrid in Medieval French romance : Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth / Stacey Hahn -- Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus : survival of customary justice and resistance to its displacement by the "new" Ordines iudiciorum as evidenced by francophonic literature of the High Middle Ages / Scott L. Taylor -- Crime and violence in the Middle Ages : the cases of Heinrich der Glichezare's Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht / Albrecht Classen -- The function of projected pain : the poetry of François Villon and the gift of self / John Gough -- Retribution in Gamelyn : a case in the courts / Jean E. Jost -- Contra signum nostrum : the symbolism of lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois / Jolanta N. Komornicka -- Women as victims and criminals in the Siete partidas / Connie L. Scarborough -- Theft in Juan Manuel's El conde Lucanor / Maria Cecilia Ruiz -- Competition for the prisoner's body : wardens and jailers in fourteenth-century Southern France / Patricia Turning -- The host on the doorstep : perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in an alleged host desecration in fourteenth-century Austria / Birgit Wiedl -- Does the punishment fit the crime? : Chaucer's Physician's tale and the worlds of judgment / Daniel F. Pigg -- Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages : the crimes and punishment of Gilles de Rais / Lia B. Ross -- The celebratory conical hat in La Celestina / John Beusterien -- Equal opportunity vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre / Kathleen M. Llewellyn -- Crimes et châtiments d'exception en France au temps des Guerres de Religion : l'utopie judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) / Nicolas Lombart -- The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "art" of correction / Martha Moffitt Peacock -- Pimping for the Fairy Queen : some cozeners in Shakespeare's England / Thomas Willard -- Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels / Denis Bjaï -- The ultimate crime : cannibalism in Early Modern minds and imaginations / Allison P. Coudert -- Punishment post mortem : the crime of suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden / Evelyne Luef.
Local Note
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Subject Term
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Crime in literature.
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Literature, European -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Punishment in literature.
Deviant behavior in literature.
Justice in literature.
Social control in literature.
Social norms in literature.
Added Author
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Classen, Albrecht.
Scarborough, Connie L., 1954-
Format
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Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
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2012
Publication Information
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Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, ©2012.
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809.933556 23 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |