Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Mental-Historical Investigations of Basic Human Problems and Social Responses

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Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Mental-Historical Investigations of Basic Human Problems and Social Responses

Edited by: Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2012

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Volume 11 | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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All societies are constructed, based on specific rules, norms, and laws. Hence, all ethics and morality are predicated on perceived right or wrong behavior, and much of human culture proves to be the result of a larger discourse on vices and virtues, transgression and ideals, right and wrong. The topics covered in this volume, addressing fundamental concerns of the premodern world, deal with allegedly criminal, or simply wrong behavior which demanded punishment. Sometimes this affected whole groups of people, such as the innocently persecuted Jews, sometimes individuals, such as violent and evil princes. The issue at stake here embraces all of society since it can only survive if a general framework is observed that is based in some way on justice and peace. But literature and the visual arts provide many examples of open and public protests against wrongdoings, ill-conceived ideas and concepts, and stark crimes, such as theft, rape, and murder. In fact, poetic statements or paintings could carry significant potentials against those who deliberately transgressed moral and ethical norms, or who even targeted themselves.

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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA; Connie Scarborough, Texas Tech University, Dallas, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Introduction. Crime, Transgression, and Deviancy: Behaviors that Defines Us All Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter 1. Le ‘crime épique’ et sa punition: quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) Bernard Ribémont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Chapter 2. “I know how to be a whore and thief” The poet’s reputation: troubadours – ancestors of poètes maudits? Susanna Niiranen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Chapter 3. The Law – Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems Christopher R. Clason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French Romance: Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth Stacey Hahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Chapter 5. 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
Chapter 6. Crime and Violence in the Middle Ages: The Cases of Heinrich der Glichezare’s Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære’s Helmbrecht Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
Chapter 7. The Function of Projected Pain: The Poetry of François Villon and the Gift of Self John Gough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
Chapter 8. Retribution in Gamelyn: A Case in the Courts Jean E. Jost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Chapter 9. Contra Signum Nostrum: The Symbolism of Lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois Jolanta N. Komornicka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Chapter 10. Women as Victims and Criminals in the Siete Partidas Connie L. Scarborough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
Chapter 11. Theft in Juan Manuel’s El Conde Lucanor Maria Cecilia Ruiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Chapter 12. Competition for the Prisoner’s Body: Wardens and Jailers in Fourteenth-Century Southern France Patricia Turning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
Chapter 13. The Host on the Doorstep: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders in an Alleged Host Desecration in Fourteenth-Century Austria Birgit Wiedl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
Chapter 14. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale and the Worlds of Judgment Daniel F. Pigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Chapter 15. Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais Lia B. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	359
Chapter 16. The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina John Beusterien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	403
Chapter 17. Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre Kathleen M. Llewellyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415
Chapter 18. 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	437
Chapter 19. The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the “Art” of Correction Martha Moffitt Peacock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	459
Chapter 20. Pimping for the Fairy Queen: Some Cozeners in Shakespeare’s England Thomas Willard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	491
Chapter 21. Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels Denis Bjaï Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	509
Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations Allison P. Coudert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	521
Chapter 23. Punishment Post Mortem – The Crime of Suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden Evelyne Luef Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	555
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	577
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	581
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	591
Acknowledgment and Gratitude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	601

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eBook published on:

October 30, 2012

eBook ISBN:

9783110294583

Hardcover published on:

October 15, 2012

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110294514

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Front matter:

8

Main content:

602

Illustrations:

41

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110294583

eBook ISBN: 9783110294583

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110294514

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Medieval Law; Medieval Literature; Crime; Punishment; Medieval Culture

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