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Karl Shoemaker - Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500 - 9780823232680 - V9780823232680
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Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500

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Description for Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500 Hardback. After situating sanctuary law within early Christian and late Roman traditions, this book explores a range sources, with special attention to the early English common law, and concludes by examining the legal arguments that led to the abolition of sanctuary privileges and ushered in state-centered age of criminal deterrence and social control. Series: Just Ideas. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.

Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval legal tradition afforded protections to fugitive criminals who took sanctuary in churches. Sanctuary-seeking criminals might have been required to perform penance or go into exile, but they were guaranteed, at least in principle, immunity from corporal and capital punishment. In the sixteenth century, sanctuary protections were abolished throughout Europe, uprooting an ancient tradition and raising a new set of juridical arguments about law, crime and the power to punish.
Sanctuary law has not received very much scholarly attention. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Series
Just Ideas
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823232680
SKU
V9780823232680
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Ref
99-1

About Karl Shoemaker
Karl Shoemaker is Associate Professor of History and Law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Reviews for Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500
"Shoemaker's excellent study elucidates the origins and successive transformations of sanctuary as a central institution of premodern criminal justice. A work of great sweep and acuity, Sanctuary and Crime effectively bridges the history of values, ideas and practices
legal, political, religious and social. Focusing first on early Continental developments and then on the Anglo-Saxon implementation and later English domestication and eventual ... Read more

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