Disability and Medieval Law

History, Literature, Society

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2013 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-4973-9 (ISBN)

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Disability and Medieval Law: History, Literature and Society is an intervention in the growing and complex field of medieval disability studies. The size of the field and the complexity of the subject lend themselves to the use of case studies: how a particular author imagines an injury, how a particular legal code deals with (and sometimes creates) injury to the human body. While many studies have fruitfully insisted on theoretical approaches, Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies directly dealt with crime, punishment, oath-taking, and mental illness. When did medieval law take disability into account in setting punishment or responsibility? When did medieval law choose to cause disabilities? How did medieval authors use disability to discuss not only law, but social relationships and the nature of the human?The volume includes essays on topics as diverse as Francis of Assissi, Margery Kempe, La Manekine, Geoffrey Chaucer, early medieval law codes, and the definition of mental illness in English legal records, by Irina Metzler, Wendy J. Turner, Amanda Hopkins, Donna Trembinski, Marian Lupo and Cory James Rushton.

Cory James Rushton is Associate Professor in the Department of English, at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is editor and co-editor of several collections on medieval romance, zombie culture, and sexuality in Medieval Britain.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2013
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4438-4973-1 / 1443849731
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-4973-9 / 9781443849739
Zustand	Neuware