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The Body Legal in Barbarian Law / Lisi Oliver.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780802097064
  • 9781442661929
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.403/230902 22
LOC classification:
  • KJ806 .O45 2011eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Barbarian Laws in Context -- 2. Process and Procedure -- 3. The head -- 4. Torso, arms, and Legs -- 5. Hands and feet -- 6. Insult and injury -- 7. Assaults against women -- 8. Assaults according to rank (nobles and King’s servants, freedmen, slaves, Clerics, foreigners) -- 9. Summary: A review of What Personal Injury Tariffs Have Told Us about Transmission of Law -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury tariffs, The Body Legal in Barbarian Law examines a variety of issues, including the interrelationships between victims, perpetrators, and their families; the causes and results of wounds inflicted in daily life; the methods, successes, and failures of healing techniques; the processes of individual redress or public litigation; and the native and borrowed developments in the various 'barbarian' territories as they separated from the Roman Empire.By applying the techniques of linguistic anthropology to the pre-history of medicine, anatomical knowledge, and law, Lisi Oliver has produced a remarkable study that sheds new light on early Germanic conceptions of the body in terms of medical value, physiological function, psychological worth, and social significance.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Barbarian Laws in Context -- 2. Process and Procedure -- 3. The head -- 4. Torso, arms, and Legs -- 5. Hands and feet -- 6. Insult and injury -- 7. Assaults against women -- 8. Assaults according to rank (nobles and King’s servants, freedmen, slaves, Clerics, foreigners) -- 9. Summary: A review of What Personal Injury Tariffs Have Told Us about Transmission of Law -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index

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The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury tariffs, The Body Legal in Barbarian Law examines a variety of issues, including the interrelationships between victims, perpetrators, and their families; the causes and results of wounds inflicted in daily life; the methods, successes, and failures of healing techniques; the processes of individual redress or public litigation; and the native and borrowed developments in the various 'barbarian' territories as they separated from the Roman Empire.By applying the techniques of linguistic anthropology to the pre-history of medicine, anatomical knowledge, and law, Lisi Oliver has produced a remarkable study that sheds new light on early Germanic conceptions of the body in terms of medical value, physiological function, psychological worth, and social significance.

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In English.

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