Reader list for the
"Conflict and the Law in Medieval Europe"
course
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Please note that "Library reserve" means that the actual reader will be available in hard copy only, in either of our libraries, after the course started. Further information will be available at the course coordinator.
July 18, Monday
Gorecki: A framework for understanding conflict: disputing, negotiating, settling.
Polish charters, no. 3, 9-13 - READER, pp. 82, 85-87.
Brown and Gorecki - "What Conflict Means" - READER, pp. 101-18.
Brown and Gorecki - "Where Conflict Leads" in Brown and Gorecki, eds., Conflict in Medieval Europe (2003), pp. 265-85 - Library reserve.
Hyams: Rancor and reconciliation.
Hyams - "Nastiness and Wrong" - READER, pp. 220-32.
Hyams - Rancor and Reconciliation [excerpts] - Library reserve.
July 19, Tuesday
Hyams: Homage and Peacemaking.
laisses xxii-xxxv, pp. 38-46; Summa de legibus Normanniae in curia laicali (De Omagio), pp. 94-97; Charters of Waltham Abbey, pp. 247-48 - READER, pp. 204-12.
Hyams, "Homage and Feudalism" - READER, pp. 233-51.
M. Bloch, "Les formes de la rupture de l'hommage" - READER, pp. 252-62.
J. Le Goff, "Symbolic Ritual of Vassalage" - READER, pp. 263-94.
D. Barthelemy, "Le statut servile au 'premier age feodal'" - READER, pp. 295-302.
July 20, Wednesday
Hudson: Disputing and feuding in England, c. 900-1200.
(The Text) - READER, pp. 149-51.
Hyams - "Feud and the State" - READER, pp. 169-90.
P. Wormald - "Giving God and King their Due"
Recommended:
Hudson, "Feud, Vengeance and Violence in England, c. 900-1200" - Library reserve.
Zazuliak: Patterns and practice of noble violence: selected cases and individuals.
Akta grodzkie i ziemskie cases - READER, pp. 352-62.
P. Geary, "Living with Conflicts in Stateless France" - READER, pp. 380-98.
Recommended:
M. Bogucka, "Law and Crime in Poland in Early Modern Times" Acta Poloniae Historica, 71 (1995), 161-75; - Library reserve
T. Kuehn, "Dispute Processing in the Renaissance," in Kuehn, Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy (1991), pp. 75-100; - Library reserve
Hillay Zmora, State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany: The Knightly Feud in Franconia, 1440-1567 (1997), pp. 1-11, 102-111 - Library reserve.
July 21, Thursday
Zazuliak: Manipulation of the law and legal arguments in noble disputes.
Akta grodzkie i ziemskie cases - READER, pp. 362-70.
N. Z. Davis, Fiction in the Archives -"Introduction" - READER, pp. 399-416.
P. Brand, "Inside the Courtroom: Lawyers, Litigants and Justices in England in the Later Middle Ages" in P. Coss, ed., The Moral World of the Law (2000), pp. 91-112 - Library reserve.
Gorecki: Autonomy of law: the existence, sources, and function of norms.
Book, no. 18-19 (chap. 1-27, 82-92) - READER, pp. 91-100;
Henrykow -
Polish charters, no. 4, 7-8, 14, 16-17 - READER, pp. 82-85, 87-88, 90-91.
Gorecki, "A Historian as a Source of Law" - READER, pp. 119-41.
Gorecki, "An Interpreter of Law and Power in a Region of Medieval Poland: Abbot Peter of Henryk6w and his Book," in I. Alfonso, H. Kennedy, and I. Escalona, eds., Building Legitimacy (2004), pp. 263-89; - Library reserve
Brown, "The Use of Norms in Disputes in Early Medieval Bavaria," Viator, 30 (1999), 15-40 - Library reserve.
Recommended:
S. White, "Inheritances and Legal Arguments in Western France, 1050-1150," Traditio, 43 (1987), 55-103 - Library reserve.
July 22, Friday
Brown: New norms in an old place: conflicts in Bavaria after the Carolingian conquest.
Freising charters; Lex Baiuariorum, chap. 1.1; Decrees of the Council of Aschheim - READER, pp. 1-15.
Brown, Unjust Seizure - "Introduction" - READER, pp. 41-55.
Recommended:
B. Rosenwein, Negotiating Space (Ithaca, 1999), pp. 27-41, 99-134 - Library reserve.
July 25, Monday
Hudson: Norms, courts, and disputing in England, c. 900-1200.
Abingdon cases - READER, pp. 152-68.
J. Hudson, "Court Cases and Legal Arguments in England" - READER, pp. 191-203.
Gorecki: Autonomy of law: from norm to written rule-legislation, restatement.
Polish charters, no. 5, 15 - READER, pp. 83, 88-90.
Gorecki, "The Rule of Recognition" - READER, pp. 142-48.
"Forum: The Emergence of Professional Law" Law and History Review, 21 (2003), 347-72
P. Coss, "Introduction," and A. D. E. Lewis, "The Autonomy of Roman Law," in P. Coss, ed., The Moral World of the Law (2000), pp. 1-16, 37-47 - Library reserve.
Brown: Legitimation of violence under Charlemagne.
Alcuin's letters; Charlemagne's capitularies; charters and formulae - READER, pp. 16-40.
G. Halsall, "Violence and Society";
F. L. Ganshof, Frankish Institutions under Charlemagne (New York, 1968), pp. 95-97, 182-83 - READER, pp. 56-81.
Recommended:
I. Nelson, "Violence in the Carolingian World and the Ritualization of Ninth-Century Warfare" in Halsall, ed., Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West (1998), pp. 90-107 - Library reserve.
July 27, Wednesday
Zazuliak: Peacemaking and private arbitration in Rus' palatinate in the fifteenth century.
Akta grodzkie i ziemskie cases - READER, pp. 370-79.
T. Kuehn, "Law and Arbitration" - READER, pp. 417-445.
Recommended:
W. I. Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking (Chicago, 1990), pp. 259-99 - Library reserve.
July 28, Thursday
Hudson: Literature and disputing: The Song of Roland.
Brown: Competing norms in Galbert of Bruges, The Murder of Charles the Good.
trans. 1. B. Ross (1982) - Library reserve.
The Murder of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders,
Recommended:
J. Rider, God's Scribe (2001) - Library reserve.
Hyams: The joy of freedom and the price of respectability.
Manumission charters; Guillaume de Saint-Parthus, Vie de Saint-Louis, p. 44; the monk of Saint-Denis, pp. 5l-52 - READER, pp. 213-19.
Hyams, "The Form of Manumission Charters" - READER, pp. 303-334;
D. Pelteret, Slavery in Early Medieval England - READER, pp. 335-51.
D. Barthelemy, La mutation de l'an mil, a-t-elle eu lieu? (1997), pp. 57-171 - Library reserve.
R. Faith, The English Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship (1997) - Library reserve.