| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital file. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 9
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Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Personal injuries -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Personal injuries. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Violence -- legislation & jurisprudence. |
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Human body -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Human body -- Law and legislation. |
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Law, Germanic -- History -- To 1500.
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Law, Germanic. |
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Compensation and Redress -- legislation & jurisprudence. |
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Accidents -- legislation & jurisprudence. |
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Wounds and Injuries. |
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Cost of Illness. |
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Value of Life. |
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History, Medieval. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oliver, Lisi. Body Legal in Barbarian Law. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9780802097064 |
| ISBN |
9781442661929 (electronic book) |
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1442661925 (electronic book) |
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