9 décembre 2020
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
John Hudson Dr, « Kings and Crime : Ideology and Practice in the tenth and twelfth Centuries », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.44858
Introduction In this paper, I compare certain aspects of the ideals and practices of royal approaches to crime in England in the tenth and the later twelfth centuries. In the latter, the Angevin period, the birth of the English Common Law is traditionally found ; in the former Patrick Wormaid has recently located what he calls the Making of English Law. My central concern is to make comparisons regarding the conceptualization and treatment of offences and offenders. I aim to set the issues in...