From England to France (eBook)

Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages

William Chester Jordan (Autor)

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2015
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6639-7 (ISBN)

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William Chester Jordan is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century and Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians (both Princeton).

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At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile-or abjuration-flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. From England to France explores the lives of these men and women who were condemned to abjure the English realm, and draws on their unique experiences to shed light on a medieval legal tradition until now very poorly understood.William Chester Jordan weaves a breathtaking historical tapestry, examining the judicial and administrative processes that led to the abjuration of more than seventy-five thousand English subjects, and recounting the astonishing journeys of the exiles themselves. Some were innocents caught up in tragic circumstances, but many were hardened criminals. Almost every English exile departed from the port of Dover, many bound for the same French village, a place called Wissant. Jordan vividly describes what happened when the felons got there, and tells the stories of the few who managed to return to England, either illegally or through pardons.From England to France provides new insights into a fundamental pillar of medieval English law and shows how it collapsed amid the bloodshed of the Hundred Years' War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.2.2015
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Schlagworte: abjuration • abjurers • accomplice • acquittal • Adjudication • Albrecht • Allegation • Amputation • appeal • arson • attempt • bailiwick • Bankruptcy • Baron • Benefit of clergy • brigitta • burglary • Capital punishment • Chaplain • Cinque Ports • circumstantial evidence • Complicity • Confiscation • connivance • Consideration • Coroner • corporal punishment • Corruption • Crime • crime of passion • criminal • Criminal Record • criminals • Culpability • deed • de facto • de jure • Demobilization • Deportation • dismemberment • Domestic violence • dower • England • English exile • English exiles • English law • exile • Exiles • exile system • Eyre (legal term) • felons • felony • fornication • France • Fraud • French village • gascony • grand jury • heinous crime • High Middle Ages • Historiography • homicide • horse theft • Hundred Years' War • Iconography • Imprisonment • indictment • Inquisition post mortem • Intention (criminal law) • intimidation • Jews • juniper berry • Jurisdiction • Jury • jury trial • Lecture • legal process • Lord • Lunch • Majesty • medieval English law • medieval legal tradition • Middle Ages • Murder • Outlaw • palgrave macmillan • Parchment • pardon • pardons • peine forte et dure • Penn State University Press • perpetual exile • Peruzzi • petitioner • petty treason • plea • Port • Port of Dover • Precedent • Princeton University Press • Prosecutor • Public Shaming • punishment • Recipe • Reprisal • Robbery • Sanctuary City • spouse • Statute • Surname • Suspect • Tax • Theft • Thomas Weyland • trespass • Trial by combat • Trial by ordeal • Turn state's evidence • University of Colorado • vodka • Wealth • Wissant • Writing • wrongdoing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6639-1 / 1400866391
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6639-7 / 9781400866397