Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridge (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Some Sessions of the Peace in Cambridgeshire in the Fourteenth Century 1340, 1380-83
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridge (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridge (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Some Sessions of the Peace in Cambridgeshire in the 14th Century, 1340,1380-83
Author: Mary Margaret Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Some Sessions of the Peace in Cambridgeshire in the Fourteenth Century 1340, 1380-83
Author: Mary Margaret Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England
Author: John G. Bellamy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802042958
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book represents the first full-length study of the English criminal trial in a crucial period of its development (1300-1550). Based on prime source material, The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England uses legal treatises, contemporary reports of instructive cases, chancery rolls, state papers and court files and rolls to reconstruct the criminal trial in the later medieval and early Tudor periods. There is particular emphasis on the accusation process (studied in depth here for the first time, showing how it was, in effect, a trial within a trial); the discovery of a veritable revolution in conviction rates between the early fifteenth century and the later sixteenth (why this revolution occurred is explained in detail); the nature and scope of the most prevalent types of felony in the period; and the startling contrast between the conviction rate and the frequency of actual punishment. The role of victims, witnesses, evidence, jurors, justices and investigative techniques are analysed. John Bellamy is one of the foremost scholars in the field of English criminal justice and in The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England gives a masterful account of what the medieval legal process involved. He guides the reader carefully through the maze of disputed and controversial issues, and makes clear to the non-specialist why these disputes exist and what their importance is for a fuller understanding of medieval criminal law. Those with a special interest in medieval law, as well as all those interested in how society deals with crime, will appreciate Professor Bellamy's clarity and wisdom and his careful blend of critical overview and new insights.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802042958
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book represents the first full-length study of the English criminal trial in a crucial period of its development (1300-1550). Based on prime source material, The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England uses legal treatises, contemporary reports of instructive cases, chancery rolls, state papers and court files and rolls to reconstruct the criminal trial in the later medieval and early Tudor periods. There is particular emphasis on the accusation process (studied in depth here for the first time, showing how it was, in effect, a trial within a trial); the discovery of a veritable revolution in conviction rates between the early fifteenth century and the later sixteenth (why this revolution occurred is explained in detail); the nature and scope of the most prevalent types of felony in the period; and the startling contrast between the conviction rate and the frequency of actual punishment. The role of victims, witnesses, evidence, jurors, justices and investigative techniques are analysed. John Bellamy is one of the foremost scholars in the field of English criminal justice and in The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England gives a masterful account of what the medieval legal process involved. He guides the reader carefully through the maze of disputed and controversial issues, and makes clear to the non-specialist why these disputes exist and what their importance is for a fuller understanding of medieval criminal law. Those with a special interest in medieval law, as well as all those interested in how society deals with crime, will appreciate Professor Bellamy's clarity and wisdom and his careful blend of critical overview and new insights.
Late-medieval England, 1377-1485
Author: DeLloyd J. Guth
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521208772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521208772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Stolen Women in Medieval England
Author: Caroline Dunn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139789414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non-normative marital practices, this work analyses the nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three overlapping offences that it could denote: rape, abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens our understanding of the role of women in the legal system; provides a means for analysing male control over female bodies, sexuality and access to the courts; and reveals ways in which female agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such controls.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139789414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non-normative marital practices, this work analyses the nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three overlapping offences that it could denote: rape, abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens our understanding of the role of women in the legal system; provides a means for analysing male control over female bodies, sexuality and access to the courts; and reveals ways in which female agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such controls.
Essex Sessions of the Peace, 1351, 1377-1379
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Essex)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Medieval Coroner
Author: R. F. Hunnisett
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
England in the Reign of Edward III
Author: Scott L. Waugh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521310390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Waugh examines the strains on English life in the remarkable era of Edward III.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521310390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Waugh examines the strains on English life in the remarkable era of Edward III.
Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England
Author: J. Masschaele
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023061616X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book portrays the great variety of work that medieval English juries carried out while highlighting the dramatic increase in demands for jury service that occurred during this period.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023061616X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book portrays the great variety of work that medieval English juries carried out while highlighting the dramatic increase in demands for jury service that occurred during this period.