Screen LibraryWergild, compensation and penance : the monetary logic of early medieval conflict resolution /
"This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person's status, to prevent and end conflict...
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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| Published: |
Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Medieval law and its practice,
volume 31 |
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| Summary: |
"This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person's status, to prevent and end conflicts, and to negotiate between an individual and the agents of statehood. This collection of interlocking essays by historians, philologists and jurists represents a major contribution to the study of law and society in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages"--Back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004315105 9004315101 |
| Index Number: | KJ982 |
| CLC: | D950.9 |
| Call Number: | D950.9/W488 |
| Contents: |
Wergild and the Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution / Observations Concerning the 'Wergild System' : Explanatory Approaches, Effectiveness and Structural Deficits / Monetary Fines, Penalties and Compensations in Late Antiquity / Wergeld : The Germanic Terminology of Compositio and Its Implementation in the Early Middle Ages / Wergild, Mund, and Manbot in Early Anglo-Saxon Law / Compensation, Honour and Idealism in the Laws of Aethelberht / Wergild and Honour : Using the Case of Frisia to Build a Model / Triplice Weregeldum : Social and Functional Status in the Lex Ribuaria / Penance and Satisfaction : Conflict Settlement and Penitential Practices in the Frankish World in the Early Middle Ages / Limits of Government : Wergild and Legal Reforms under Charlemagne / Wergild in the Carolingian Formula Collections / Kin's Collective Responsibility for the Payment of Man's Compensation in Medieval Denmark / Concluding Thoughts from England and the Western Legal Tradition / |