Jonathan R. Lyon (University of Chicago)

Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe

A Thousand-Year History

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging the standard narrative of a â medievalâ Europe of feudalism and lordship being replaced by a â modernâ Europe of government, bureaucracy and the state, this book argues for continuity in corrupt practices of justice and protection between 750 and 1800, focusing on the position of advocate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 770g
• ISBN-13: 9781316513743
• ISBN-10: 1316513742
• Artikelnr.: 63594176

Autorenporträt

Jonathan R. Lyon is Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where he specializes in the history of the Holy Roman Empire. He has previously held fellowships from the Humboldt Foundation and the Austrian Science Fund. He is the author of Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100-1250 (2013), which won the 2017 John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America, and Noble Society: Five Lives from Twelfth-Century Germany (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The First 'Medieval' Advocates
2. Putting Down Roots in Ninth-Century Francia
3. The 'Aristocratization' of Post-Carolingian Advocacy
4. Elite Competition at the Turn of the First Millennium
5. The Limits of Church Reform
6. Pigs and Sheep, Beer and Wine, Pennies and Pounds
7. A History of Violence
8. Weapons of the Not-so-Weak
9. The Murder of Archbishop Engelbert
10. Widening the Lens
11. The Emperor as Vogt, ca. 1000-1500
12. From Lordship to Government?
13. Reframing the History of Violence
14. Crossing the False Divide: Advocates after 1500
15. A Cultural History of the Rapacious Advocate, or: William Tell's Revenge
Conclusion.