Excommunication and Outlawry in the Legal World of Medieval Iceland

Excommunication and Outlawry in the Legal World of Medieval Iceland PDF Author: Elizabeth Walgenbach
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004461469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Book Description
This book focuses on excommunication, outlawry, and the connections between them in medieval Icelandic legal and literary sources. It argues that outlawry was a punishment shaped by the conventions and structures of excommunication as it developed in canon law.