Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach Dinzelbacher, Peter Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xxxii:3 (Winter, 2002) Abstract This contribution discusses a phenomenon that is ignored…
Torquemada, the Inquisition, And the Expulsion of the Jews
Torquemada, the Inquisition, And the Expulsion of the Jews Rush, Timothy EIR Strategic Studies, April 1 (2005) Abstract The essential conflict between Europe and…
Anglo-Saxon Women Before the Law: A Student Edition of Five Old English Lawsuits
Anglo-Saxon Women Before the Law: A Student Edition of Five Old English Lawsuits By Andrew Rabin Old English Newsletter, Vol. 41:3 (2008) Introduction:…
The Secret of Venetian Success: Public-order yet Reputation-based Institutions
The Secret of Venetian Success: Public-order yet Reputation-based Institutions de Lara, Yadira González XIV International Economic History Congress, Session 84, Helsinki, July 21 (2006)…
The Legal Character of Natural Law According to St. Thomas Aquinas
The Legal Character of Natural Law According to St. Thomas Aquinas By Stephen L. Brock PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1988 Abstract: The…
Wisdom Literature in Early Ireland
Wisdom Literature in Early Ireland Yocum, Christopher Guy Studia Celtica (2011) Abstract This article explores connections between early Irish law and wisdom literature and…
Orgeluse and the Trial for Rape at the Court of King Arthur: Parzival 521, 19 to 529, 16
Orgeluse and the Trial for Rape at the Court of King Arthur: Parzival 521, 19 to 529, 16 Westphal-Wihl, Sarah Arthuriana 20.3 (2010) Abstract…
Fingers, Compensation and King Canute
The search for the origin of ideas is a fascinating exercise; but it can lead one far into the forests of history. We started with digital nomenclature and modern schedules of compensation for injury; we rapidly got to King Canute, but that was by no means the end of the story.
The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History
One thousand, one hundred and four years ago, a criminal trial took place in Italy, a trial so macabre, so gruesome, so frightful, that it easily qualifies as the strangest and most terrible trial in human in human history.
Personal Memory, Collective Testimony and Masculinity in the Late Medieval Church Court of York
Personal Memory, Collective Testimony and Masculinity in the Late Medieval Church Court of York Kane, Bronach Marginalia, Vol. 5 (2007) Abstract For churchmen…
Perfumes and perfume-making in the Celestina
In these pages I will endeavour to set Celestina’s skills in the context of making perfume and uses of it in the early 16th century.