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Essays investigating the question of time, and how it was
perceived, both in philosophical/religious terms, and in reality.
How was time experienced in the Middle Ages? What attitudes
informed people's awareness of its passing - especially when
tensions between eternity and human time shaped perceptions in
profound and often unexpected ways? Is it a human universal or
culturally specific - or both? The essays here offer a range of
perspectives on and approaches to personal, artistic, literary,
ecclesiastical and visionary responses to time during this period.
They cover a wide and diverse variety of material, from historical
prose to lyrical verse, and from liturgical and visionary writing
to textiles and images, both real and imagined, across the literary
and devotional cultures of England, Italy, Germany and Russia. From
anxieties about misspent time to moments of pure joy in the here
and now, from concerns about worldly affairs to experiences of
being freed from the trappings of time, the volume demonstrates how
medieval cultures and societies engaged with and reflected on their
own temporalities.
This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in
twelfth-century English politics: justice. It demonstrates that
during the foundational period for the common law, the question of
judgement and judicial ethics was a topic of heated debate - a
common problem with multiple different answers. How to be a judge,
and how to judge well, was a concern shared by humble and high,
keeping both kings and parish priests awake at night. Using
theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections,
the book explores how moralists attempted to provide guidance for
uncertain judges. It argues that mercy was always the most
difficult challenge for a judge, fitting uncomfortably within the
law and of disputed value. Shining a new light on English legal
history, Justice and mercy reveals the moral dilemmas created by
the establishment of the common law. -- .
This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in
twelfth-century English politics: justice. It demonstrates that
during the foundational period for the common law, the question of
judgement and judicial ethics was a topic of heated debate - a
common problem with multiple different answers. How to be a judge,
and how to judge well, was a concern shared by humble and high,
keeping both kings and parish priests awake at night. Using
theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections,
the book explores how moralists attempted to provide guidance for
uncertain judges. It argues that mercy was always the most
difficult challenge for a judge, fitting uncomfortably within the
law and of disputed value. Shining a new light on English legal
history, Justice and mercy reveals the moral dilemmas created by
the establishment of the common law. -- .
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