320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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The essays in this volume discuss feuding and peacemaking in France during a period extending from the mid-10th to the early 12th century. They treat various aspects of so-called dispute-processing - a term coined by legal anthropologists to refer to the political processes and discursive practices through which conflict is mediated politically, socially, legally, and culturally. Each of the... Read more
Contents: Preface. Part I Feuding: Feuding and peace-making in the Touraine around the year 1100; The 'feudal revolution': comment; Repenser la violence: de 2000 à 1000; The politics of anger. Part II Peace-making: 'Pactum...legem vincit et amor judicium': the settlement of disputes by compromise in 11th-century western France; Inheritances and legal arguments in western France, 1050-1150; Proposing the ordeal and avoiding it: strategy and power in western French litigation, 1050-1110; From peace to power: the study of disputes in medieval France; 10th-century courts at Mâcon and the perils of structuralist history: re-reading Burgundian judicial institutions. Index.
Biography
Stephen D. White is the Asa G. Candler Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Medieval Studies Program at Emory University, USA.
