The Consumption of Justice

Daniel Lord Smail

ISBN 10: 080147888X / ISBN 13: 9780801478888

Edité par Cornell University Press, US, 2013

A propos de cet article

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts (the consumers of justice) and explains why men and women chose to invest resources in the law. Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Consumption of Justice
• Éditeur: Cornell University Press, US
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 080147888X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780801478888
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 454 grammes

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Synopsis

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts (the consumers of justice) and explains why men and women chose to invest resources in the law.Daniel Lord Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures.

À propos de l?auteur

Daniel Lord Smail is the author of Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille, also from Cornell, winner of the American History Association's Herbert Baxter Adams prize.