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International law in Europe, 700-1200
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ISBN: 9781526142283 1526142287 Year: 2022 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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"Was there international law in the Middle Ages? Using treaties as its main source, this book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. It considers how consistently international legal rules were obeyed, whether there was a reliance on justification of action and whether the system had the capacity to resolve disputed questions of fact and law. The book further sheds light on issues such as compliance, enforcement, deterrence, authority and jurisdiction, challenging traditional ideas over their role and function in the history of international law.International law in Europe, 700-1200 will appeal to students and scholars of medieval Europe, international law and its history, as well as those with a more general interest in warfare, diplomacy and international relations."


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The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt
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ISBN: 9781474459235 9781474459266 1474459269 1474459234 9781474459259 1474459250 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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In sum, the book shows that the administrative and political history of the judiciary in medieval Egypt implicitly and explicitly illuminates broader questions about religious and social forces that shaped the lives of medieval people in the Middle East, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.


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Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
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ISBN: 9781009075961 1009075969 1316513742 9781316513743 9781009074711 1009084097 1009084291 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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What was an "advocate" (Latin: advocatus; German: Vogt) in the Middle Ages? What responsibilities came with the position and how did they change over time? With this groundbreaking study, Jonathan R. Lyon challenges the standard narrative of a "medieval" Europe of feudalism and lordship being replaced by a "modern" Europe of government, bureaucracy and the state. By focusing on the position of advocate, he argues for continuity in corrupt practices of justice and protection between 750 and 1800. This book traces the development of the role of church advocate from the Carolingian period onward and explains why this position became associated with the violent abuse of power on churches' estates. When other types of advocates became common in and around Germany after 1250, including territorial and urban advocates, they were not officeholders in developing bureaucracies. Instead, they used similar practices to church advocates to profit illicitly from their positions, which calls into question scholarly arguments about the decline of violent lordship and the rise of governmental accountability in European history.


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The Cambridge history of Medieval Canon Law
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ISBN: 9781107025042 9781107692572 1107025044 9781139177221 1139177222 1107692571 1009063952 1009064274 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon law also regulated the clergy and the Church, one of the most important institutions in the Middle Ages. This Cambridge History offers a comprehensive survey of canon law, both chronologically and thematically. Written by an international team of scholars, it explores, in non-technical language, how it operated in the daily life of people and in the great political events of the time. The volume demonstrates that medieval canon law holds a unique position in the legal history of Europe. Indeed, the influence of medieval canon law, which was at the forefront of introducing and defining concepts such as 'equity,' 'rationality,' 'office,' and 'positive law,' has been enormous, long-lasting, and remarkably diverse


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Against the backdrop of sovereignty and absolutism : the theology of God's power and its bearing on the Western legal tradition, 1100-1600
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ISBN: 9789004503700 9789004503694 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston (Massachussetts) : Brill,

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This book attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of the Western legal tradition depends on one of the most long-standing debates of the Middle Ages, the distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata (God's absolute and ordered power). The mediaeval investigation into God's attributes was originally concerned with the problem of divine almightiness but underwent a slow but steady displacement from the territory of theology to the freshly emerging proceedings of legal analysis. Here, based on the distinction, late-mediaeval lawyers worked out a new terminology to define the extent of the power-holder's authority. This effort would give rise, during the early modern era, to the gradual establishment of the legal-political framework represented by the concepts of the prince and sovereignty.


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Les ordalies : rituels et conduites
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ISBN: 9782849345511 2849345512 Year: 2022 Publisher: Le Kremlin-Bicêtre : Mare & Martin,

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Les ordalies, pratique déduite d'une cosmogonie immémoriale, ont participé en bien des temps et des lieux au règlement des conflits. Leurs rituels mettent en scène une épreuve dangereuse (voire mortelle) où accusés et accusateurs en appellent à une puissance sacrée pour que se manifeste la vérité. Très présente en Inde et en Mésopotamie, la culture de l'ordalie se repère dans de nombreux épisodes mythiques de l'Antiquité. Au Moyen-Age, les épreuves ordaliques, dont le duel judiciaire, dominent le système probatoire tout en subissant les critiques d'une Église qui rechigne à y voir une intervention divine. En Afrique et à Madagascar, ces épreuves, parfois encore prégnantes de nos jours, privilégient la puissance sacrale et justicière de l'eau et du feu, là où coexistent le visible et l'invisible. De ces rituels institués, nos contemporaines "conduites ordaliques" pourraient être une survivance, dans un monde où leur place devrait être cantonnée à l'imaginaire des productions culturelles

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