Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World

Esther Liberman Cuenca (Edited By) Esther Liberman Cuenca is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston- Victoria. She is the author of The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England. Her essays have appeared in Urban History, The Paris Review, Historical Reflections, Popular Music, and Continuity and Change.M. Christina Bruno (Edited By) M. Christina Bruno is Associate Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University in New York. She is a historian of late medieval Italy, focusing upon fifteenth-century Italian Observant Franciscans as legal and economic experts and practitioners.Anthony Perron (Edited By) Anthony Perron is Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of three chapters in the Cambridge Histories series, including the Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law. He has published articles in The Catholic Historical Review, The Journal of the Historical Society, and Historical Reflections, as well as in several edited volumes.

• IntroductionEsther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno, and Anthony Perron 1Canon Law and the World of the Medieval Church1. Between Royal Law and Canon Law in Becket (1964)Anthony Perron 92. Relic Movement, Anathema, and Crusade in Pilgrimage (2017)Sarah C. Luginbill 223. The Creation of the Franciscan Rule in Francesco (1989)Nathan Melson 364. Poverty and Heresy in The Name of the Rose (1986)M. Christina Bruno 495. Joan of Arc's Inquisitorial Trial of Faith in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Henry Ansgar Kelly 61"Feudal" Law and the Customs of Lordship6. The Chivalric Code in The Green Knight (2021)Coral Lumbley 757. Crusading and Oath-Taking in Kingdom of Heaven (2005)Esther Liberman Cuenca 898. Forest Law in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)Casey Ireland 1019. Trial by Battle and Gendered Medievalisms in The Last Duel (2021)Sara McDougall and David M. Perry 11410. Animal Trials in The Advocate (1993)Julie K. Chamberlin 126Women and Representations of Premodern Law11. Religious Women's Authority and Rules for Nuns in Vision:From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)Lucy C. Barnhouse 14112. War, Family, and the Law of the Kyivan Rus in Alexander Nevsky (1938)Asif A. Siddiqi 15313. Church Law, Community Practice, and the Witch Trial That Wasn't in Sorceress (1987)Rachel Ellen Clark and Lucy C. Barnhouse 16614. The Myth of Jus Primae Noctis, or the "Right of the First Night," in Braveheart (1995)Lorraine Kochanske Stock 18015. Medieval Satire and the Canon Law of Claustration in The Little Hours (2017)Spencer Strub 195Religious Conflict and Forging Communities through Law16. Late Roman Law, Women's Status, and Classical Education in Agora (2009)Christopher Bonura 21117. Depicting the Prophet, Social Justice, and the Pillars of Islam in The Message (1976)Maria Americo 22518. Lawful Language and Global North Encounters in The 13th Warrior (1999)Daniel Armenti and Nahir I. Otaño Gracia 23719. Jewish Assimilation and the Absent "Saracens" and Africans of Ivanhoe (1952)Celia Chazelle 25120. Medieval Science, the Spanish Inquisition, and Religious Violence in 1492:Conquest of Paradise (1992)Eugene Smelyansky 265Acknowledgments 279Contributors 281Index 283