TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Esther
TI  - The crossroads of justice: law and culture in late medieval France 
T2  - Brill's studies in intellectual history,
SN  - 9789004246850
AV  - KJV263 .C64 1993
U1  - 340.5/0944 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Leiden, New York
PB  - E.J. Brill
KW  - Customary law
KW  - France
KW  - Culture and law
KW  - Law, Medieval
KW  - Ritualism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index; Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: FUNCTIONS AND FORMS OF LAW -- CHAPTER TWO: THE REALITY OF MEDIEVAL LAW AND ITS MYTHS -- CHAPTER THREE: THE REALITY OF LATE MEDIEVAL FRENCH LAW AND ITS MYTHS -- CHAPTER FOUR: COURTHOUSE RITUALS IN TRANSITION -- CHAPTER FIVE: FOLKLORE AND SYMBOLIC FUNCTIONS IN MEDIEVAL LEGAL RITUALS -- CHAPTER SIX: THE RITUALS OF EXCLUSION: WOMEN AND JEWS -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE RITUALS OF INCLUSION: ANIMALS -- CHAPTER EIGHT\' THE RITUALS OF THE EXCLUDED: THE DEAD -- CHAPTER NINE: THE INTERACTIVE VOCABULARY OF JUSTICE -- CHAPTER TEN: POWER AND DISGRACE: RITUALS OF INFAMY -- CHAPTER ELEVEN\' POWER AND DEATH: PUBLIC EXECUTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The book is an analysis of the cultural and social functions of law, legal processes and legal rituals in late medieval Northern France. It is centered around a time and a place in which European law underwent some major transformations, from a plethora of local oral customs to a fairly coherent system of national, written customary law. In this process, law and legal procedures came to reflect a great variety of cultural traditions, ranging from popular perceptions of animals and the human body to learned ideas of Roman jurisprudence. Drawing upon wide-ranging sources: judicial, legal, literary and historical, Cohen analyzes the various influences upon the shaping of law as a cultural manifestation and its application as an actual system of justice
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004246850
ER  -