Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe (Hardcover, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Arc Medieval Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Medieval Globe Books
Release date:	April 2017
First published:	2017
Editors:	Elizabeth Lambourn (Reader in South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies)
Editors-in-chief:	Carol Symes (Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	266
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-942401-09-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN:	1-942401-09-4
Barcode:	9781942401094

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