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London church courts and society on the eve of the Reformation

Richard M. Wunderli c1981 © Medieval Academy of America
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  • 9780910956710 (paper)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

  • Stats

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures and Tables (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xiii)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Chapter
  • I THE COURTS (page 7)
    • 1. The Consistory Court (page 7)
    • 2. The Commissary Court (page 10)
    • 3. Other London Church Courts (page 15)
    • 4. Court of Arches (page 18)
    • 5. Number of Cases (page 19)
  • II AN ECCLESIASTICAL LEGAL SYSTEM (page 25)
    • 1. London and Londoners (page 25)
    • 2. Reporting Suspects (page 31)
    • 3. Trials (page 40)
    • 4. Sanctions (page 49)
    • 5. Court Fees (page 54)
    • 6. Judges and the Law (page 55)
    • 7. Conclusion (page 61)
  • III DEFAMATION (page 63)
    • 1. Procedure (page 68)
    • 2. Numbers and Dispositions of Cases (page 72)
    • 3. The Litigants (page 75)
    • 4. Defamatory Words (page 76)
  • IV SEXUAL CRIMES (page 81)
    • 1. Adultery (page 84)
    • 2. Fornication (page 88)
    • 3. Pimping (page 92)
    • 4. Prostitution (page 96)
    • 5. Conclusion (page 101)
  • V OTHER LITIGATION (page 103)
    • 1. Breach of Faith and Petty Debt (page 104)
    • 2. Tithes (page 108)
    • 3. Probate (page 113)
    • 4. Marriage (page 118)
    • 5. Nonobservance of Sundays and Feast Days (page 122)
    • 6. Other Crimes (page 123)
  • Conclusion (page 133)
  • Appendix A: Tables (page 141)
  • Appendix B: Sample Folios from the "Acta quoad correctionem delinquentium" (page 149)
  • Bibliography of Manuscript Sources (page 161)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 87.2 (Apr. 1982): 444 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1870157
A 14.1 (Spring 1982): 75-76 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4048489
ENHR 99.390 (Jan. 1984): 163-164 http://www.jstor.org/stable/567958
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