Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Elizabeth Lambourn, De Montfort University) Lambourn, Elizabeth (Reader in South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Carol Symes

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Law has been a primary locus and vehicle of contact across human history—as a system of ideas embodied in people and enacted on bodies; and also as a material, textual, and sensory "thing." The seven essays gathered here analyze a variety of legal encounters on the medieval globe, ranging from South Asia to South and Central America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Contributors uncover the people behind and within legal systems and explore various material expressions of law that reveal the complexity and intensity of cross-cultural contact in this pivotal era. Topics include comparative jurisprudence, sumptuary law, varieties of punishment, forms of documentation and legal knowledge, religious law, and encounters between imperial and indigenous legal systems. A featured source preserves an Ethiopian king's legislation against traffic in Christian slaves, resulting from the intensifying African slave trade of the sixteenth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-04-03
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe Medieval Globe Books
Antal sidor266
FörlagArc Humanities Press
ISBN9781942401094

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Elizabeth Lambourn is Reader in South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. Her research is particularly focused on the identification and study of new material archives and on Indian Ocean materialities. Carol Symes is the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the history of documentary practices and communication media in medieval Europe.

Editor's Introduction to "Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe" by Elizabeth LambournThe Future of Aztec Law by Jerome A. OffnerLand and Tenure in Early Colonial Peru: Individualizing the Sapci, "That Which is Common to All" by Susan Elizabeth RamírezThe Edict of King Gälawdéwos against the Illegal Slave Trade in Christians: Ethiopia, 1548 by Habtamu Mengistie TegegneMutilation and the Law in Early Medieval Europe and India: A Comparative Study by Patricia SkinnerCommon Threads: A Reappraisal of Medieval European Sumptuary Law by Laurel Ann WilsonToward a History of Documents in Medieval India: The Encounter of Scholasticism and Regional Law in the Smṛticandrikā by Donald R. Davis, Jr.Chinese Porcelain and the Material Taxonomies of Medieval Rabbinic Law: Encounters with Disruptive Substances in Twelfth-Century Yemen by Elizabeth Lambourn and Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman