Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England
Duels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and orderly British ways of settling differences. In this surprising work of social and legal history, Paul R. Hyams reveals a post-Conquest England not all that different from the realms across the Channel. Drawing on a wide range of texts and the long history of argument about these texts, Hyams shatters the myth of English exceptionalism, the notion that while feud and vengeance prevailed in the lands of the Franks, England had advanced beyond such anarchic barbarism by the time of the Conquest and forged a centralized political and lega…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-2574-6
- EAN: 9781501725746
- Produktnummer: 29144076
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 29'747 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Paul R. Hyams
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