The Consumption of Justice

Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423

By:

Daniel Lord Smail

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past

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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.

Author Biography:

Daniel Lord Smail is Professor of History at Harvard University.

Release date Australia

September 4th, 2003

Author

Daniel Lord Smail

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

296

Series

Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past

Dimensions

155x235x24

ISBN-13

9780801441059

Product ID

2007567

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