... and spectators to assent in specific legal claims to the land in dispute. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 medieval and early modern Rogation perambulation liturgical practice property law legal disputes performance theory Rogationtide perambulations took place throughout medieval...

... retardation, epilepsy, deformity, disputed sexuality (hermaphroditism, intersexuality, or castration), deafness, blindness, and even more fleeting circumstances such as fever, could call into question an individual's ability to perform normal legal actions or to be allowed to inherit an estate, serve...

... research into legal disputes over labor contracts after 1350 and into women’s access to the land market in the wake of the first epidemic in 1348–49, when opportunities available to females are thought to have been expanding most rapidly. It concludes that women were drawn into the labor market after 1350...

... but thorny case involved acts that, by their nature, were not committed in front of witnesses. For example, sexual intercourse was legally relevant whenever the validity of marriages was in dispute, such as the case in which a marriage was not consummated. This issue came up relatively frequently and could...

...Peter Arnade; Elizabeth Colwill Late medieval and early modern pardon letters are among the best sources of ordinary people's voices in the premodern period. The stuff of social history, these legal documents allow us access to nonelite social actors and masculine spaces of sociability. Yet...

... the purposes of kings and their counselors. This essay traces commentators’ reticence about acknowledging the legislative purposes behind early English legislation to disputes over codification that agitated German-speaking parts of Europe in the early nineteenth century. Yet the earliest editors...

... Attacking the cosmographers as inexperienced theoreticians, many of these pilots claimed to throw overboard the revised charts that they were required to carry as a result of the legal dispute. One sailor, Francisco del Barrio, went so far as to suggest that the padrón real itself was the work...

... that the genre was somehow becoming less necessary equally fails to take into account the many complex issues surrounding the legal and conciliar processes against heresy, which became so prominent a feature from late antiquity onwards, and which indicate a lively interest in the matter. 50...

..., two of the foremost legal minds of sixteenth-century England engaged in a bitter print controversy over the subject of reform. Christopher St. German, one of the first vernacular expositors of English law, sparred with Thomas More, renowned humanist and former Lord Chancellor. The two men disputed...

... had long rankled civic governors and guilds, sparking a series of legal and political skirmishes between the City and St. Martin’s in the 1520s and 1530s. This article examines St. Martin’s community of Dutch and French immigrants, who constituted the densest concentration of aliens...

... appearances in the city court records, seems to have been a popular choice for feoffee or trustee, executor, and mediator in legal disputes. He was involved in the bequests of several wealthy Londoners and was a powerful promoter of the interests of the city’s elite, living and dead, as he...

... to focus on the actions—and, as we shall see, nonactions—of the veil? Note that Psellos scripted his report at the order of Emperor Michael VII Doukas, not as a generic account of the miracle that occurred every Friday, but as a response to a specific legal case sorting out the ownership of a watermill...

... it. The effect can be detected in the way that normally subtle readers choose to oppose the poem as if they were one of the disputants within it, greeting all the complexity of its state- ments with the blunt declaration that it “has no message.”1 The effect is evident as well in the way even...

... in a sermon before the queen, “It is now disputed at every table, whether the magistrate be of necessity bound to the judicials of Moses.”7 Whitgift’s complaint reveals the resistance in some quarters to this form of Protestant hermeneutics, but also underscores the degree to which biblical legalism...

...” are the original framers of the Constitution, while the “Receivers” are the judges who receive their legal materials from the “Makers,” resolving any disputes “by referring to the meaning of the words that contain law and, when necessary, by retrieving the intentions of the Makers in enacting the laws.” 59...

... century, such vision-­narratives tend to adopt real-­world professional dis- courses, such as legal or medical language and imagery. Allegory’s moral- izing function is thus yoked to notions of culpability, incarceration, disease. Late medieval French literature’s most compelling convergence...

... truth claims. As Gregory is fond of pointing out in his discussion of doctri- nal disputes within Christianity, given the principle of noncontradiction, conflicting truth claims are irreconcilable (110). Disagreement is real; every- one cannot be right. It is not, though, in Gregory’s interest...

... of Protestant soteriology, and makes comparison with contemporary legal practice. In my view, Shuger does the following in her essay: she mischarac- terizes pre-­Reformation theology of penance; and she deeply underestimates the seriousness with which Reformation soteriological theology undoes its...

...- tainly stand as “the real,” since no one disputed that something happened. Considerable ink was spilled, however, about why and how the fire started. Our mediated access to that real event is not a consequence only of the passage of time. Even then, no one was sure...

... assent to such punishments and eventually accept burning as a legal form of punishment. Rejecting a purely theological or symbolic view of the dead consigned to the flames as representing the punishments of hell, this article stresses the parallel between the saints and the cursed. If from a medieval...