Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc

Fear Not the Madness of the Raging Mob

Patricia Turning (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2012
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-23464-2 (ISBN)

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In Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc, Turning explores the role of the urban public in shaping local jurisdiction as the region of Languedoc became a part of the Capetian kingdom in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

In Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc, Turning examines the public’s role in shaping municipal policies through demonstrations in the city streets or through their contact with local administrators in fourteenth-century Toulouse. The text explores police brutality, town and gown rows, explosive neighborhood disputes, and communal demands for public punishments, all of which were a way residents could engage and participate in their local judicial system. The book contextualizes this interaction to the era after the French king conquered the city, and began his efforts to integrate the region into the royal domain. Turning argues that this process of assimilation was only complete after officials and the urban public tested and negotiated the transition in everyday life.

Patricia Turning, Ph.D. (UC-Davis, 2007), teaches medieval and early modern European history courses at Arizona State University. She has published articles on medieval crime and punishment, and her next project is an examination of the experiences of women in pre-modern prisons.

A Note about Abbreviations and Citations … vii

Introduction … 1
1 From Count to King: The Capitols’ Struggle to Maintain Control over the Legal Structure of Toulouse … 17
2 The Spatial Distribution of Crime in Toulouse … 43
3 “With an Angry Face and Teeth Clenched:” Personal Conflict and Public Resolution … 73
4 Forces of Order, Forces of Disorder: Corrupt Officers and the Confusion of Authority … 103
5 The Power to Punish in Medieval Toulouse … 137
Conclusion … 177

Selected Bibliography … 185
Index … 195

Reihe/Serie	Later Medieval Europe ; 10
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	90-04-23464-0 / 9004234640
ISBN-13	978-90-04-23464-2 / 9789004234642
Zustand	Neuware