The crossroads of justice : law and culture in late medieval France / by Esther Cohen.
1993
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Title
The crossroads of justice : law and culture in late medieval France / by Esther Cohen.
Published
Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1993.
Call Number
KJV263 .C64 1993
ISBN
9004095691
Description
x, 231 pages, 1 leaf of plates ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)26395788
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-222) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1
I
Functions and Forms of Law
4
II
The Reality of Medieval Law and Its Myths
15
The Multiplicity of Legal Systems: Mutual Influences and Conflicts
15
Posited Law: Reality and the Myth of the Good Old Law
19
Vox Populi: The Popular Components of Customary Law
22
III
The Reality of Late Medieval French Law and Its Myths
27
The Writing of Customary Law
28
The Myth of Customary Law
39
Figures and Myths of Justice
42
Northern French Law in the European Context
51
IV
Courthouse Rituals in Transition
54
V
Folklore and Symbolic Functions in Medieval Legal Rituals
74
Popular Elements and Legal Rituals
74
Legal Rituals and Their Functions
77
VI
The Rituals of Exclusion: Women and Jews
85
Analogies of Liminality
85
Jews: The Human 'Animals'
88
Women: The Human Other
94
VII
The Rituals of Inclusion: Animals
100
The Animals
100
The Trials
110
VIII
The Rituals of the Excluded: The Dead
134
IX
The Interactive Vocabulary of Justice
146
X
Power and Disgrace: Rituals of Infamy
162
Defamation by Marking
162
Defamation by Inversion
168
XI
Power and Death: Public Executions
181
Secular Power and Death
184
Ecclesiastical Power and Death
195
Conclusion
202
Bibliography
209
Index
223