商品簡介
Drawing on judicial, legal, and historical sources, Cohen (medieval history, Ben Gurion U. of the Negev, Israel) analyzes the cultural and social functions of law, legal processes, and legal rituals in late medieval northern France, a period when the plethora of traditional local customs was being supplanted by a national, written legal code. She shows how the new system embodied a great variety of cultural traditions, ranging from popular perceptions of animals and the human body, to learned ideas of Roman jurisprudence. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
作者簡介
Esther Cohen is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. She published numerous articles on popular religion and culture in the middle ages, and on the historical criminology of late medieval France. Publications include: To die a Criminal for the Public Good (1990), Youth and Deviancy in the Middle Ages (1990), and Gift, Payment and the Sacred in the Middle Ages, (1991).
