| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital file |
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Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 9 |
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Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 9.
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| Contents |
Barbarian Laws in Context -- Process and Procedure -- The Head -- Torso, Arms and Legs -- Hands and Feet -- Insult and Injury -- Assaults against Women -- Assaults According to Rank (Nobles and King's Servants, Freedmen, Slaves, Clerics, Foreigners) -- Summary: a Review of What Personal Injury Tariffs Have Told Us about Transmission of Law |
| Summary |
"The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury tariffs, The Body Legal in Barbarian Law examines a variety of issues, including the interrelationships between victims, perpetrators, and their families; the causes and results of wounds inflicted in daily life; the methods, successes, and failures of healing techniques; the processes of individual redress or public litigation; and the native and borrowed developments in the various 'barbarian' territories as they separated from the Roman Empire |
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By applying the techniques of linguistic anthropology to the pre-history of medicine, anatomical knowledge, and law, Lisi Oliver has produced a remarkable study that sheds new light on early Germanic conceptions of the body in terms of medical value, physiological function, psychological worth, and social significance."--Pub. desc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index |
| Subject |
Personal injuries -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Human body -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Law, Germanic -- History -- To 1500
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Wounds and injuries.
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Accidents -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Compensation and Redress -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Cost of Illness
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History, Medieval
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Value of Life
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Violence -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Wounds and Injuries
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Wounds and injuries
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Medicine, Medieval
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Human body -- Law and legislation
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Law, Germanic
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Personal injuries
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Körperverletzung
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Naturrecht
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Rechtsstreit
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Verletzung
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Europe
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Germanien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442661929 |
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1442661925 |
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