The body legal in barbarian law /Lisi Oliver.

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Oliver, Lisi [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2011.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012).Description: 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital fileContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442661929

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

KJ806 .B639 2011

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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.Summary: 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.

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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.

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