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..., Lincolnshire at Ashby Heath. In these instances, perambulators used the occasion of the public recognition of property boundaries as an opportunity to stage a complaint in an act of “performative law.” The complainants asserted their rights and liberties by means of a theatrical form that invited participants...

... or artifacts, history and ways of knowl- edge” were then taken up within cultural property law.18 This binary model of cultural appropriation, which was dominant during the 1980s, provoked theoretical resistence by the late 1980s from those who argued that it silenced the “other.” In “Problems...

... notable case is women’s relation to property. English cover- ture laws, which restricted the control of real property (such as land) by married women, transferring it in most cases to husbands, have long been assumed to ensure that women’s relation to property was virtually nonexis- tent. Amy...

... Irish and Anglo-­Irish lords with improving landlords, eradicating customary claims to property through extraeconomic force. In early passages of A View, Irenius proves the threat that Brehon Law (in his words, a “vilde law” that “often shewes equity” [14]) poses to Elizabeth’s claims to Irish...

... the same John a Cullyn, alias John Albertson, who had been swindled when he first arrived in St. Martin’s in the late 1520s, around the same time as Williamson himself first leased property in the precinct — is named as his brother, possibly what we would term brother-­in-­law. A Peter Peterson...

... respecting them.”35 Glanville notes that the king’s acquiescence stems from more than his desiring to be agreeable. Clearly, Henry sensed the possibility of dire consequences if he defied cus- tom. Glanville’s “customary rights” concern matters of property, and a large part of the common law is devoted...

... of Provençal law, women rarely divested their properties. The Repenties also received from Pope Gregory XI’s good will various bequests left vacant in their succession, especially for the year 1375–76. During these years, wills from clerics lacking inheritors reverted to the Apostolic Chamber, which...

... Early modern England experienced a vital shift from the landscapes of cus- tom and stewardship to that of property. Whereas land had once been seen as a shared arena for fulfilling social responsibilities by engaging in time-­ honored activities, “the ‘law of property’ champion[ed] the rights...

... perfect in the singing; just as little did the prestige of the law proceed from the judge, who could not make a new one; the minstrels were the guardians of the common property of song”; so wrote Jakob Grimm in his “Von der Poesie im Recht” (qtd. in Huebner, History of Germanic Private Law , 9...

... a wife’s ability to dispose of goods by turning to legal precedent. He bases his argument on a strict application of the law of coverture. By getting married, a woman “loseth all the property she formerly had in her owne goods. Yea her necessary apparell is not hers in property” (V6v). A wife...

... and Engels saw most economic laws as specifi c to particular societies (25:135–36; 35:625– 26), they regarded the correspondence of society’s relations of production or forms of property to the level of development of its productive forces as a 474 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 34.3...

... A. Prendergast College of Wooster Wooster, Ohio “What God hath conjoined then, let no man separate.” I am the husband, and all the whole island is my lawful wife; I am the head, and it is my body; I am the shepherd, and it is my flock. —James I1...

.... At times, they indicate that the saint risks violation because of her purity; at others, they illustrate how her sovereignty affords her the right to defend her properties, even through violence. By aligning themselves with the royal saint, whether she is imagined as a victim or as an aggressor...

... was a nativus —“born unfree.” Kin solidarities were central in shaping patterns of property, power, and violence. To people who 44 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.1 / 2001 JMEMS31.1-02 Bartlett 2/26/01 6:56 PM Page 45 constantly saw the fate...

... liberal arts, before proceeding to the study of theology or repairing to Bologna for instruction in law. Within a generation or so, it had been established that only a student who had been accepted by his masters as one of themselves could be granted the bishop’s indispensable licence to teach...

..., if not the only, case (and a relatively limited one at that) in which Roman law explicitly allowed the probatory value of witnesses who lacked direct knowledge of the facts. While canonists, in general, did not concern themselves with property rights and rainwater damages, they found that the lack of eyewitnesses...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 47.1 / 2017 it was intended to improve upon local, customary law in the Low Coun- tries, prey to the whims of local officials — town aldermen with rudimen- tary legal training who sat regularly in special sessions to consider property and personal conflicts. Every...

... ebenine; blanc pieds : gresles & petits) are merely inverse properties or descriptive categories rather than gendered oppositions. The law of gram- mar and genre provided sufficient resistance to Pasquier’s appeal to nature. Des Roches’s utterances riddled by citations challenged her guest’s parasiti...

... the Renaissance as the time at which the mirror ceased to be invested with magical properties and instead became emblematic of the modern subject. In his compendious study, The Mutable Glass: Mirror-Imagery in Titles and Texts of the Middle Ages and English Renaissance, Herbert Grabes claims that between...

... or transforms but also recovers and restores old dramatic material. The Chester ass Sometime between and a new play was added to the Chester mys- tery cycle: Moses and the Law: Balaack and Balaam, performed by the cap- 422 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.2 / 2012 pers or cap...