Law, laity and solidarities Essays in honour of Susan Reynolds

by Stafford, Pauline; Nelson, Janet L.; Martindale, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780719058363
• ISBN10: 0719058368
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-13
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

In this invigorating collection of essays by leading medieval historians, the issue of laityprimarily the ideas and attitudes of lay peopleare examined, as expressed in legal cases, charters, chronicles, and collective activities. The contributors focus on narratives from the Middle Ages, during a period of progress from irrational to rational thought. The essays range chronologically and geographically from the 7th to the 16th century, and from West Britain to Papal and urban Italy.

Author Biography

Pauline Stafford is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Liverpool.

Janet L. Nelson is Professor of Medieval History at King's College, University of London.

Jane Martindale taught Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, and is a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(11)
Pauline Stafford
Janet L. Nelson
Jane Martindale
Writing about Charles Martel	12	(15)
Paul Fouracre
Peers in the early Middle Ages	27	(20)
Janet L. Nelson
Stepmothers in Frankish legal life	47	(21)
Brigitte Kasten
Political ideas in late tenth-century England: charters as evidence	68	(15)
Pauline Stafford
Medieval mentalities and primitive legal practice	83	(12)
M. T. Clanchy
The problem of treason: the trial of Daire le Roux	95	(21)
Stephen D. White
Between law and politics: the judicial duel under the Angevin kings (mid-twelfth century to 1204)	116	(34)
Jane Martindaie
Local custom in the early common law	150	(10)
Paul Brand
`Slaves of the Normans'? Gerald de Barri and regnal solidarity in early thirteenth-century England	160	(12)
John Gillingham
Kinsmen, neighbours and communities in Wales and the western British Isles, c.1100-c.1400	172	(16)
Rees Davies
Lay kinship solidarity and papal law	188	(12)
David d'Avray
Laity, laicisation and Philip the Fair of France	200	(18)
Elizabeth A. R. Brown
Lay solidarities: the wards of medieval London	218	(16)
Caroline M. Barron
Language, laughter and lay solidarities: an inquiry into the decline of pilgrimages and crusading	234	(15)
Charles T. Wood
Lay/clerical distinctions in early India	249	(13)
Romila Thapar
A bibliography of Susan Reynolds's work (to 1999)	262	(7)
Pamela Taylor
Index of topics	269
C. P. Lewis