TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oliver,Lisi
TI  - The Body Legal in Barbarian Law
SN  - 9780802097064
AV  - KJ806 .O45 2011eb
U1  - 346.403/230902 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Human body
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Law, Germanic
KW  - Personal injuries
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442661929
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