Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe
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Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe

  1. 266 pages
  2. English
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Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe

About this book

Law has been a primary locus and vehicle of contact across human history—as a system of ideas embodied in people and enacted on bodies; and also as a material, textual, and sensory "thing." The seven essays gathered here analyze a variety of legal encounters on the medieval globe, ranging from South Asia to South and Central America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Contributors uncover the people behind and within legal systems and explore various material expressions of law that reveal the complexity and intensity of cross-cultural contact in this pivotal era. Topics include comparative jurisprudence, sumptuary law, varieties of punishment, forms of documentation and legal knowledge, religious law, and encounters between imperial and indigenous legal systems. A featured source preserves an Ethiopian king's legislation against traffic in Christian slaves, resulting from the intensifying African slave trade of the sixteenth century.

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Information

Publisher
Arc Humanities Press
Year
2017
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781942401117
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  3. ELIZABETH LAMBOURN — Editor’s Introduction to “Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe”
  4. JEROME A. OFFNER — The Future of Aztec Law
  5. SUSAN ELIZABETH RAMÍREZ — Land and Tenure in Early Colonial Peru: Individualizing the Sapci, “That Which is Common to All”
  6. HABTAMU MENGISTIE TEGEGNE — The Edict of King Gälawdéwos against the Illegal Slave Trade in Christians: Ethiopia, 1548
  7. PATRICIA SKINNER — Mutilation and the Law in Early Medieval Europe and India: A Comparative Study
  8. LAUREL ANN WILSON — Common Threads: A Reappraisal of Medieval European Sumptuary Law
  9. DONALD R. DAVIS, JR. — Toward a History of Documents in Medieval India: The Encounter of Scholasticism and Regional Law in the Smṛticandrikā
  10. ELIZABETH LAMBOURN and PHILLIP ACKERMAN-LIEBERMAN — Chinese Porcelain and the Material Taxonomies of Medieval Rabbinic Law: Encounters with Disruptive Substances in Twelfth-Century Yemen
  11. INDEX

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