| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 212 pages) |
| Series |
The northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 44 |
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Northern world ; v. 44.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Previous Research; Research Questions, Lay-Out, and Terminology; Th e Sources; PART A CRIMINALISATION OF SEXUAL ACTS; Chapter One New Laws, Old Principles; Chapter Two Individual Criminal Responsibility; Chapter Th ree Th e Final Criminalisation of Sexual Acts in the High Middle Ages; PART B PUNISHMENT; Chapter Four Capital Punishment; Chapter Five Fines and Cone scation of Property; Chapter Six From Penance to Church Discipline; Chapter Seven d e Reward of Sin; PART C GENDER EQUALITY?; Chapter Eight Who Was Punished, and for What? |
| Summary |
Based on legal practice from the period c 1250-1600, this book takes issue with the important viewpoints in earlier research by early modernists: that the Reformation represented a watershed in a development characterized by criminalisation of sexual acts, increase in the severity of sentences and deterioration of the position of women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex crimes -- Norway -- History
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Sex and law -- Norway -- History
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Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
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Reformation -- Norway
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Law, Medieval -- History
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Law, Medieval.
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Law, Medieval
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Reformation
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Sex and law
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Sex crimes
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Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Norway
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789047427100 |
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9047427106 |
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1282602985 |
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9781282602984 |
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9786612602986 |
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6612602988 |
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