Journal The Mediaeval Journal, vol. 11.2

The Mediaeval Journal 11:2 (2021)

Special Issue: Law and Ritual in the Middle Ages, edited by Jenny Benham, Helle Vogt, and Matthew McHaffie

  • Pages: approx. 280 p.
  • Size:156 x 234 mm
  • Illustrations:3 b/w
  • Language(s):English
  • Publication Year:2024


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    Summary

    The Mediaeval Journal is a distinctively European-based cross-disciplinary and multinational journal of Mediaeval Studies published in English in both print and online formats. Featuring the work of specialists in all areas of Mediaeval Studies, it offers wide disciplinary coverage in every issue and welcomes submissions from the worldwide community of mediaevalists in traditional disciplines such as Art History, History, Archaeology, Theology, European Languages/Literatures (including English), as well as burgeoning areas such as Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Manuscript Studies, Mediaevalisms, Material Culture, History of Medicine and Science, History of Ideas, Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Musicology, to name a few. Each issue of The Mediaeval Journal also contains timely and expert reviews responding to the variety and energy of scholarship across the world of Mediaeval Studies. The General Editors are pleased to receive submissions in any of the above areas, and to respond to queries from potential contributors.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Introduction
    JENNY BENHAM, HELLE VOGT, MATTHEW MCHAFFIE

    Compurgation and Ritualization in Medieval Norway
    OLE-ALBERT RØNNING NORDBY

    The Emergence of the Ordeal in Anglo-Saxon England
    STEFAN JURASINSKI

    Miracle and Mandate: A Case Study of Sanctification at the Intersection of Ritual and Law
    KIM ESMARK

    Norms and Rituals of Conflict Settlement in Foreign Affairs in the High Middle Ages
    HERMANN KAMP

    Anger in Court: A Multifaceted Ritual Display
    HANS JACOB ORNING

    Law, Ritual, and Punishment: The Consequences of Making War Against the King in High Medieval England and Norway
    LOUISA TAYLOR

    Access to Courtrooms in the Late Medieval Town Halls of the Low Countries
    NATHAN VAN KLEIJ

    The Danish Assemblies – An Arena for Ritualised Legal Action
    PER ANDERSEN AND HELLE VOGT

    Mercy and ‘Law’s Violence’: Pardoning Fines in Western France, c.1030–c.1170
    MATTHEW MCHAFFIE