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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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2017
Copyrightjahr
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-942401-09-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-942401-11-7
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
The Medieval Globe Books
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
266
Produkttyp
Sammelband
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
CONTENTS Kein Zugriff
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Kein Zugriff
Editor’s Introduction to “Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe” Kein Zugriff
The Future of Aztec Law Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 32
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Land and Tenure in Early Colonial Peru: Individualizing the Sapci, “That Which is Common to All” Kein Zugriff Seiten 33 - 72
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The Edict of King Gälawdéwos against the Illegal Slave Trade in Christians: Ethiopia, 1548 Kein Zugriff Seiten 73 - 114
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Mutilation and the Law in Early Medieval Europe and India: A Comparative Study Kein Zugriff Seiten 115 - 140
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Common Threads: A Reappraisal of Medieval European Sumptuary Law Kein Zugriff Seiten 141 - 166
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Toward a History of Documents in Medieval India: The Encounter of Scholasticism and Regional Law in the Smṛticandrikā Kein Zugriff Seiten 167 - 198
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Chinese Porcelain and the Material Taxonomies of Medieval Rabbinic Law: Encounters with Disruptive Substances in Twelfth-Century Yemen Kein Zugriff Seiten 199 - 238
