Sanctuary and crime in the middle ages, 400-1500

Main Author: Shoemaker, Karl.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Just ideas : transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thought
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10469450
Table of Contents:
  • Authority, intercession, and penance
  • Roman aristocratic traditions, imperial penal law, and sanctuary
  • Reassessing early medieval sanctuary legislation
  • The transmission and reception of sanctuary legislation in the early middle ages
  • Sanctuary, blood feud, and the strength of Anglo-Saxon government
  • Sanctuary in the century after the Norman conquest
  • Sanctuary and Angevin law reforms
  • The role of canon law in the destruction of sanctuary.