Wergild, Compensation and Penance
The Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution
Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice; 31;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 16 July 2021
- ISBN 9789004315105
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 692 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic of early medieval conflict resolution embodied in the payment of wergild or blood money, showing how wergild developed a multifaceted role in legal society.
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This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person?s status, to prevent and end conflicts, and to negotiate between an individual and the agents of statehood. This collection of interlocking essays by historians, philologists and jurists represents a major contribution to the study of law and society in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages.
Contributors are Lukas Bothe, Warren Brown, Stefan Esders, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Paul Hyams, Tom Lambert, Ralph W. Mathisen, Rob Meens, Han Nijdam, Lisi Oliver, Harald Siems, Karl Ubl, and Helle Vogt.
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'My dominant response to this collection was pleasure and gratitude: pleasure because the articles are without exception wonderful; gratitude because it is about time someone published a collection like this. For our understanding of medieval law has changed dramatically in the last two generations, yet when it comes to wergild, most of us still operate with assumptions that go back to the nineteenth century.' Geoffrey Koziol in The Medieval Review, 22.03.16. See the full review
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Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Contributors
1 Wergild and the Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution
Stefan Esders
2 Observations Concerning the ?Wergild System?: Explanatory Approaches, Effectiveness and Structural Deficits
Harald Siems
3 Monetary Fines, Penalties and Compensations in Late Antiquity
Ralph W. Mathisen
4 Wergeld: The Germanic Terminology of Compositio and Its Implementation in the Early Middle Ages
Wolfgang Haubrichs
5 Wergild, Mund and Manbot in Early Anglo
-Saxon Law
Lisi Oliver
6 Compensation, Honour and Idealism in the Laws of ?thelberht
Tom Lambert
7 Wergild and Honour: Using the Case of Frisia to Build a Model
Han Nijdam
8 Triplice Weregeldum: Social and Functional Status in the Lex Ribuaria
Lukas Bothe
9 Penance and Satisfaction: Conflict Settlement and Penitential Practices in the Frankish World in the Early Middle Ages
Rob Meens
10 The Limits of Government: Wergilds and Legal Reforms under Charlemagne
Karl Ubl
11 Wergild in the Carolingian Formula Collections
Warren Brown
12 The Kin?s Collective Responsibility for the Payment of Man?s Compensation in Medieval Denmark
Helle Vogt
13 Concluding Thoughts from England and the ?Western Legal Tradition?
Paul Hyams
Index
Wergild, Compensation and Penance: The Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution
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