Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : de Gruyter, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Classen, Albrecht.
• Scarborough, Connie L., 1954-

Description

viii, 602 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 11

Uniform Title

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 11.

Subjects

• Punishment in literature
• Literature, European > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Social norms in literature
• Justice in literature
• Deviant behavior in literature
• Crime in literature
• Social control in literature
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Twenty-one contributions in English and 3 in French.

Contents

Introduction. Crime, transgression, and deviancy : behaviors that defines us all / Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough -- Le "crime épique" et sa punition : quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) / Bernard Ribémont -- "I know how to be a whore and thief" : the poet's reputation: troubadours, ancestors of poètes maudits? / Susanna Niiranen -- The law, letter and spirit : language, transgression and justice in three Medieval German epic poems / Christopher R. Clason -- Crime, punishment and the hybrid in Medieval French romance : Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth / Stacey Hahn -- 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 -- Crime and violence in the Middle Ages : the cases of Heinrich der Glichezare's Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht / Albrecht Classen -- The function of projected pain : the poetry of François Villon and the gift of self / John Gough -- Retribution in Gamelyn : a case in the courts / Jean E. Jost -- Contra signum nostrum : the symbolism of lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois / Jolanta N. Komornicka -- Women as victims and criminals in the Siete partidas / Connie L. Scarborough -- Theft in Juan Manuel's El conde Lucanor / Maria Cecilia Ruiz -- Competition for the prisoner's body : wardens and jailers in fourteenth-century Southern France / Patricia Turning -- The host on the doorstep : perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in an alleged host desecration in fourteenth-century Austria / Birgit Wiedl -- Does the punishment fit the crime? : Chaucer's Physician's tale and the worlds of judgment / Daniel F. Pigg -- Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages : the crimes and punishment of Gilles de Rais / Lia B. Ross -- The celebratory conical hat in La Celestina / John Beusterien -- Equal opportunity vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre / Kathleen M. Llewellyn -- 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 -- The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "art" of correction / Martha Moffitt Peacock -- Pimping for the Fairy Queen : some cozeners in Shakespeare's England / Thomas Willard -- Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels / Denis Bjaï -- The ultimate crime : cannibalism in Early Modern minds and imaginations / Allison P. Coudert -- Punishment post mortem : the crime of suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden / Evelyne Luef.

Call Number

JFE 13-5148

ISBN

• 9783110294514 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 3110294516 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9783110294583 (ebk.)
• 3110294583 (ebk.)

LCCN

2012038419

OCLC

813567965

Title

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.

Imprint

Berlin ; Boston : de Gruyter, c2012.

Series

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 11

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 11.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Twenty-one contributions in English and 3 in French.

Added Author

Classen, Albrecht.

Scarborough, Connie L., 1954-

Research Call Number

JFE 13-5148