Curia

A Social History of a Provençal Criminal Court in the Fourteenth Century

Steven Bednarski

Curia tells the social history of a late medieval criminal court, its users, and its operators. This court was a seigneurial possession of the Knights Hospitaller located in the Provençal town of Manosque.

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Curia tells the social history of a late medieval criminal court, its users, and its operators. This court was a seigneurial possession of the Knights Hospitaller located in the Provençal town of Manosque.

The book is based on an exhaustive study of over 1,500 criminal inquest records from between 1340 and 1403. These documents preserve the detailed words and deeds of medieval townspeople. From them, the book presents ’history from below,’ to consider how people manoeuvred in society. It lays bare solidarities, enmities, passions, and lies. Between its tales of adultery, wife assault, child abuse, treason, theft, and arson, it stitches together the fabric of everyday life.

While the criminal records reveal how individuals navigated social spaces, they also highlight a pivotal moment in western juridical development. By the fourteenth century, court operators deliberately drew men and women into the workings of justice, and encouraged them to use courts as institutionalized fora for conflict resolution. At the same time, increased buy-in from subjects offered court operators renewed opportunities for traditional, top-down regulation.

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Année de publication 2013
Auteur Steven Bednarski
Format 16 x 24
ISBN 978-2-84269-970-3
ISSN 2109-6910
Nombre de pages 228
Éditeur Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée – PULM
Langue Anglais
Type ouvrage Broché, dos carré collé
Date de mise à disposition 17 avr. 2013
Quantité stock 8 Sens 39
Poids 0.500000
Sous-Titre A Social History of a Provençal Criminal Court in the Fourteenth Century
Steven Bednarski
Steven Bednarski is a social historian of crime and gender. He is Associate Professor of Medieval History at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo. There, he has supportive colleagues and talented students. Curia is his first book.

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