The Body Legal in Barbarian Law

Description:

"The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury tariffs, The Body Legal in Barbarian Law examines a variety of issues, including the interrelationships between victims, perpetrators, and their families; the causes and results of wounds inflicted in daily life; the methods, successes, and failures of healing techniques; the processes of individual redress or public litigation; and the native and borrowed developments in the various 'barbarian' territories as they separated from the Roman Empire. By applying the techniques of linguistic anthropology to the pre-history of medicine, anatomical knowledge, and law, Lisi Oliver has produced a remarkable study that sheds new light on early Germanic conceptions of the body in terms of medical value, physiological function, psychological worth, and social significance."--Pub. desc.

subjects: Droit germanique,  Law and legislation,  Personal injuries,  Histoire,  Germanic Law,  Dommage corporel,  Droit,  Corps humain,  Human body,  History,  Law, germanic,  Law, europe,  Compensation and Redress,  Legislation & jurisprudence,  Violence,  Accidents,  Cost of Illness,  Medieval History,  Value of Life,  Wounds and Injuries

Places: Europe

Times: 500-1500 (Moyen Âge),  To 1500