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A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the d'Hauteville case, a controversial child custody battle fought in 1840. It uses the story of one couple's bitter fight over their son to explore some timebound and timeless features of American legal culture. In a narrative analysis, it recounts how marital woes led Ellen and Gonzalve d'Hauteville into what Alexis de Tocqueville called the 'shadow of the law'. Their multiple legal experiences culminated in an eagerly followed Philadelphia trial that sparked a national debate over the legal rights and duties of mothers and fathers, and husbands and wives. The story of the d'Hauteville case explains why popular trials become 'precedents of legal experience' - mediums for debates about highly contested social issues. It also demonstrates the ability of individual women and men to contribute to legal change by turning to the law to fight for what they want.

Justice and politics --- History --- Custody of children --- Pennsylvania --- Philadelphia (Pa.) --- D'Hauteville, Gonzalve --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- D'Hauteville, Ellen --- D'Hauteville, Ellen - Trials, litigation, etc. --- D'Hauteville, Gonzalve - Trials, litigation, etc. --- Custody of children - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia. --- Justice and politics - History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Trials (Custody of children) --- Justice, Administration of --- Political aspects --- History. --- Administration of justice --- Law --- Courts --- Law and legislation --- D'Hauteville, Gonsalve --- D'Hauteville, Paul Daniel Gonzalve Grand --- Grand d'Hauteville, Gonzalve --- Hauteville, Gonzalve d' --- Sears, Ellen --- Grand d'Hauteville, Ellen

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This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. The text provides an important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105. The work as a whole has a striking Norman point of view and contains details found in no other source, providing a corrective to the strong northern focus of most of the other narrative sources for the First Crusade.

Crusades --- Croisades --- Sources. --- Sources --- Tancred, --- Antioch (Principality) --- Antioche (Principauté) --- History. --- Histoire --- Medieval Latin literature --- anno 1000-1099 --- Jerusalem --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- Hauteville, Tancrède de, --- Tancrède, --- Tancredi,

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Conquering Sicily from the middle of the 11th century, Hauteville are the first to set up a government that is defined as a Christian and, at least in part, from Latin, while exercising its prerogatives at a predominantly Muslim population, Arabic speaking. To do this, they gradually developed instruments of government, but also became the patrons of a cultural production that has aroused admiration and comments until today. This work is presented as an investigation into the different dimensions of the power of Hauteville from the conquest of Sicily at the end of the 12th century (language policy, state building, patronage, but also control of populations and territory). It aims to demystify the representations that we often have of this long century of "tolerance", but also to deconstruct the idea that the failure of the dynasty was written in advance. He nevertheless postulates that the "Norman" construction in Sicily remains original and innovative and that it provides useful elements of comparison for all those who analyze situations of conquest and minority government in a multicultural context.

Normans --- Arabs --- Normands (Français) --- Arabes --- History. --- Histoire --- Sicily (Italy) --- Sicile (Italie) --- History --- Civilization --- Arab influences. --- Civilisation --- Influence arabe --- Herrschaft. --- Normands (Français) --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Italy --- Ethnology --- Semites --- Northmen --- Normans - Italy - Sicily - History. --- Arabs - Italy - Sicily - History. --- Sicily (Italy) - History - 1016-1194. --- Sicily (Italy) - Civilization - Arab influences. --- Italie --- influence islamique --- Moyen Âge --- Sicile --- Hauteville --- Normands --- Sicile (italie) --- 827-1072 --- 1072-1458 --- Moyen âge --- Influence islamique --- Pompéi (ville ancienne)