Del 128 i serien Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series

Clergy and Criminal Violence in Later Medieval England and Wales

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Clergy formed a distinct and privileged group in later medieval society as regarded violent crime. Church law was intended to protect them from it, induce them to avoid it, and exempt them from secular justice following it. But in practice, were the clergy so separate from the violent culture around them and different from the laymen who dominated it? In the first full-length study of this subject in the later medieval period, Peter Clarke shows that clergy accused of violent and other crimes increasingly submitted to secular justice like laymen, seeking clerical immunity only as a last resort. It reveals that church authorities, in providing legal redress for clerical victims of lay violence, sought to heal divisions between laity and clergy, not to deepen them. Additionally, it explores the motives and contexts behind clerical involvement in violent crime, both as perpetrators and victims, revealing that clergy often acted similarly to laymen.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-09
Mått157 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt756 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Antal sidor400
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108843805

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Peter D. Clarke is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton and President of the International Society of Medieval Canon Law. His publications include The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century: A Question of Collective Guilt (2007) and Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary, 1410-1503 in three volumes (co-edited with Patrick N R Zutshi, 2013-15).

'This is an exciting and innovative study of the rules developed by medieval canon law in relation to serious violence committed by clerics and against clerics and how these were applied and interpreted in England during the later Middle Ages and how they intersected with (and arguably influenced) the workings of English royal criminal justice. It is also a valuable study of the social settings of such violence and one which draws upon an impressive volume of original evidence from English ecclesiastical courts, the records of the papal penitentiary as well as English royal courts.' Paul Brand, University of Oxford