Crime in Medieval Europe 1200-1550

✍ Scribed by Trevor Dean

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Series: The Medieval World
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative history of lawlessness and criminal justice. Drawing on the real-life stories of ordinary men and women who often found themselves at the sharp end of the law, he shows how it was often one rule for the rich and another for the poor in a tangled web of judicial corruption.

✦ Table of Contents

1 Courts Crimes and Causes
1

2 Judicial Corruption
30

3 Late Medieval Crime Waves?
47

4 Women and Crime
73

5 Outside the Law? Avengers Clerics Students
96

6 Punishment
118

7 Crime in Literature
144

Conclusion
162

Bibliographical note
164

Index
168