Legalism : community and justice /

That law is, or should be, related to justice generally goes without saying; that communities are the basis for (or objects of) laws is also easily assumed; and notable theories of justice explicitly or implicitly elide the two. In this volume historians and anthropologists use empirical examples to...

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Other Authors: Pirie, Fernanda, 1964- (Editor), Scheele, Judith, 1978- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Legalism; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Justice, Community, and Law; 1 From Theology to Law: Creating an Armenian Secular Law Code; 2 Lex Scripta and the Problem of Enforcement: Anglo-Saxon, Welsh, and Scottish Law Compared; 3 Justice Contested and Affirmed: Jurisdiction and Conflict in Late Medieval Italian Cities; 4 Outlawry, Exile, and Banishment: Reflections on Community and Justice; 5 Defining Boundaries: Law, Justice, and Community in Sixteenth-Century England; 6 Regulating Community and Society at the Sorbonne in the Late Thirteenth Century
  • 7 Community as an Achievement: Kabyle Customary Law and Beyond8 'Popular' and 'Official' Justice: Punishing Sexual Offenders in Tudor London; 9 Community, Justice, and Legalism: Elusive Concepts in Tibet; References Cited; Index