| Medieval Crime and Social Control: Volume 16 Contributor(s): Hanawalt, Barbara A. (Author), Wallace, David (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0816631697 ISBN-13: 9780816631698 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $27.23 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1998 Annotation: Crime is a matter of interpretation, and never was this truer than in he Middle Ages, when societies faced with new ideas and pressures were continually forced to rethink what a crime was -- and what was a crime. This collection undertakes a thorough exploration of shifting definitions of crime and changing attitudes toward social control in medieval Europe. These essays reveal how various forces in medieval society interacted and competed in interpreting and influencing mechanisms for social control. Drawing on a wide range of historical and literary sources -- legal treatises, court cases, statutes, poems, romances, and comic tales -- the contributors consider topics including fear of crime, rape and violence against women, revenge and condemnations of crime, learned dispute about crime and social control, and legal and political struggles over hunting rights. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.940 |
| LCCN: 98-29192 |
| Series: Medieval Cultures (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.94" W x 9.04" (0.83 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |