Karl Shoemaker Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500 (Hardback)

by Karl Shoemaker

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Further Details Title: Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500 Condition: New Author: Karl Shoemaker Format: Hardback EAN: 9780823232680 ISBN: 9780823232680 Publisher: Fordham University Press Genre: History Release Date: 04/01/2011 Description: Sanctuary and Crime rethinks the history of sanctuary protections in the Western legal tradition. Until the sixteenth century, every major medieval legal tradition afforded protections to fugitive criminals who took sanctuary in churches. Sanctuary-seeking criminals might have been required to perform penance or go into exile, but they were guaranteed, at least in principle, immunity from corporal and capital punishment. In the sixteenth century, sanctuary protections were abolished throughout Europe, uprooting an ancient tradition and raising a new set of juridical arguments about law, crime and the power to punish. Sanctuary law has not received very much scholarly attention. According to the prevailing explanation among earlier generations of legal historians, sanctuary was an impediment to effective criminal law and social control, but was made necessary by rampant violence and weak political order in the medieval world. Contrary to the conclusions of the relatively scant literature on the topic, Sanctuary and Crime argues that the practice of sanctuary was not simply an instrumental device intended as a response to weak and splintered medieval political authority. Nor can sanctuary laws be explained as simple ameliorativ

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 2011
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780823232680
• Condition: Fine

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