TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oliver,Lisi
TI  - The body legal in barbarian law /Lisi Oliver
T2  - Toronto Anglo-Saxon series
SN  - 9781442661929
AV  - KJ806 .B639 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Personal injuries
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Human body
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Law, Germanic
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
KW  - Wounds and injuries
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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