European University Institute Library

Medieval legal and political thought, from Isidore and the Quran to Maimonides and the Incas, by Larry May

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-530) and index

index present

non fiction

Medieval legal and political thought

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by Larry May

from Isidore and the Quran to Maimonides and the Incas

General introduction -- Part A. Germanic law and Byzantium -- Introduction to part A -- Section I. Justice and jurisdiction -- Justice and equity in Germanic law and Byzantium -- Jurisdiction and conflict of laws -- Section II. Legal personhood and status -- Valuing lives : the free, the half-free, and the wergeld -- Slavery and manumission -- Women and the family -- Section III. Criminality : individual and collective -- Collective guilt and the blood feud -- Compensation to the state for crime -- Crime and sin -- Section IV. War and peace -- War, violence, and Christianity -- Part B. Islamic and Canon law -- Introduction to part B -- Section V. Divine and natural law -- Divine law and justice -- Reason and nature -- Trials and proof -- Section VI. Legal status -- The status of women -- Slavery under religious law -- Rules for religious life -- Section VII. Crime and punishment -- Criminal intent -- Heresy and apostasy -- Divine and earthly punishment -- Section VIII. Justifying war -- Medieval jihads, crusades, and just causes for war -- Part C. English common law and early Icelandic law -- Introduction to part C -- Section IX. Substantive and procedural law -- Justice, custom, and the form of law -- Assemblies, juries, and judges -- The rule of law, Magna Carta, and the Old Covenant -- Section X. Status -- Women, wives and daughters -- Section XI. Criminal law -- Outlawry and inlawry -- The crime of disrupting the peace -- Section XII. International law -- Peace settlements -- Part D. Neo-Aristotelian jurisprudence -- Introduction to part D -- Section XIII. Natural law, equity, and procedural law -- Divine law -- Natural law -- Equity -- Section XIV. Status and criminality -- Heretics -- The trials of the Templars and Joan of Arc -- Criminal justice and capital punishment -- Section XV. International law -- The just war -- Appendix. Indigenous law in the Americas and Africa -- Customary law, written law, and colonization -- Prisoners of war and war-thinking

From Isidore and the Quran to Maimonides and the Incas