Sanctuary and crime in the middle ages, 400-1500

Shoemaker, Karl.

Sanctuary and crime in the middle ages, 400-1500 [electronic resource] / Karl Shoemaker. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2011. - xiv, 269 p. ; 24 cm. - Just ideas : transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thought. . - Just ideas. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index.

Authority, intercession, and penance -- Roman aristocratic traditions, imperial penal law, and sanctuary -- Reassessing early medieval sanctuary legislation -- The transmission and reception of sanctuary legislation in the early middle ages -- Sanctuary, blood feud, and the strength of Anglo-Saxon government -- Sanctuary in the century after the Norman conquest -- Sanctuary and Angevin law reforms -- The role of canon law in the destruction of sanctuary.


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Asylum, Right of--History--Europe--To 1500.
Law, Medieval.

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