The body legal in barbarian law /Lisi Oliver.
Oliver, Lisi.
The body legal in barbarian law /Lisi Oliver. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2011. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital file - Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 9 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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. 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.
9781442661929
Personal injuries--History--Europe--To 1500.
Human body--Law and legislation--History--Europe--To 1500.
Law, Germanic--History--To 1500.
Medicine, Medieval.
Wounds and injuries.
Electronic Books.
KJ806 / .B639 2011
The body legal in barbarian law /Lisi Oliver. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2011. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital file - Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 9 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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. 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.
9781442661929
Personal injuries--History--Europe--To 1500.
Human body--Law and legislation--History--Europe--To 1500.
Law, Germanic--History--To 1500.
Medicine, Medieval.
Wounds and injuries.
Electronic Books.
KJ806 / .B639 2011