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The Consumption of Justice : Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423 / Daniel Lord Smail.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval PastPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 11 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801478888
  • 9780801468780
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.5/6/0944912
LOC classification:
  • KJW7693.37 ǂb S525 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1. Using the Courts -- 2. Structures of Hatred -- 3. The Pursuit of Debt -- 4. Bony and Bona -- 5. The Public Archive -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Nature and Format of the Record -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts (the consumers of justice) and explains why men and women chose to invest resources in the law.Daniel Lord Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1. Using the Courts -- 2. Structures of Hatred -- 3. The Pursuit of Debt -- 4. Bony and Bona -- 5. The Public Archive -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Nature and Format of the Record -- Bibliography -- Index

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In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts (the consumers of justice) and explains why men and women chose to invest resources in the law.Daniel Lord Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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