Legal encounters on the medieval globe

Law has been a primary locus and vehicle of contact across human history - as a system of ideas embodied in people and enacted on bodies; and also as a material, textual, and sensory 'thing'. This volume analyzes a variety of legal encounters ranging from South Asia to South and Central Am...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lambourn, Elizabeth, 1966- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kalamazoo : Arc Humanities Press 2017.
Colección:The Medieval Globe ; volume 2.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The future of Aztec law / Jerome A. Offner
  • Land and tenure in early colonial Peru : individualizing the Sapci, "that which is common to all" / Susan Elizabeth Ramírez
  • The edict of King Gälawdéwos against the illegal slave trade in Christians : Ethiopia, 1548 / Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne
  • Mutilation and the law in early medieval Europe and India : a comparative study / Patricia Skinner
  • Common threads : a reappraisal of medieval European sumptuary law / Laurel Ann Wilson
  • Toward a history of documents in medieval India : the encounter of scholasticism and regional law in the Smṛticandrikā / Donald R. Davis Jr.
  • Chinese porcelain and the material taxonomies of medieval rabbinic law : encounters with disruptive substances in twelfth-century Yemen / Elizabeth Lambourn and Philip Ackerman Lieberman.