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Author Lyon, Jonathan Reed, author.

Title Corruption, protection and justice in Medieval Europe : a thousand-year history / Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 417 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- The first "Medieval" advocates -- Putting down roots in ninth-century Francia -- The "aristocratization" of post-Carolingian advocacy -- Elite competition at the turn of the first millennium -- The limits of church reform -- Pigs and sheep, beer and wine, pennies and pounds -- A hyistory of violence -- Weapons of the not-so-weak -- The murder of Archbishop Engelber -- Widening the lens -- The emperor as vogt, ca. 1000-1500 -- From lordship to government? -- Reframing the history of violence -- Crossing the false divide : advocates after 1500 -- A cultural history of the rapacious advocate, or : William Tell's revenge -- Conclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2022)
Subject Law, Medieval.
Justice, Administration of -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Patron and client -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Justice, Administration of
Law, Medieval
Patron and client
Politics and government
SUBJECT Europe -- Politics and government -- 476-1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045734
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022004706
ISBN 9781009075961
1009075969