Judicial tribunals in England and Europe, 1200-1700

The trial in history, volume I
Herausgeber: Mulholland, Maureen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries, providing a rounded view of trials conducted according to different procedures within contrasting legal systems, including English common law and Roman canon law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780719063435
• ISBN-10: 0719063434
• Artikelnr.: 33614138

Autorenporträt

Maureen Mulhollandis now Honorary Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester following her recent retirement. Brian Pullan is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Notes on contributors Introduction 1. What is a trial?
Joseph Jaconelli 2. The role of amateur and professional judges in the royal courts of medieval England
Anthony Musson 3. Was the jury ever self
informing?
Daniel Klerman 4. Trials in manorial courts in late medieval England
Maureen Mulholland 5. Judges and trials in the English ecclesiastical courts
R. H. Helmholz 6. The attempted trial of Boniface VIII for heresy
Jeffrey Denton 7. Reasonable doubt: Defences advanced in early modern sodomy trials in Geneva
William G. Naphy 8. Testifying to the self: nuns' narratives in early modern Venice
Mary Laven 9. The Trial of Giorgio Moreto before the Inquisition in Venice, 1589
Brian Pullan Index