The Trial in History.

The Trial in History.

Dealing with trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries, this text gives a rounded view of trials conducted according to different procedures within contrasting legal systems, including English common law and Roman canon law.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mulholland, Maureen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Trials > England > History.
Trials > Europe > History.
Ecclesiastical courts > England > History.
Ecclesiastical courts > Europe > History.
Administrative courts > England > History.
Administrative courts > Europe > History.
Administrative courts
Ecclesiastical courts
Trials
England
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction Maureen Mulholland; 1 What is a trial? Joseph Jaconelli; 2 The role of amateur and professional judges in the royal courts of late medieval England Anthony Musson; 3 Was the jury ever self informing? Daniel Klerman; 4 Trials in manorial courts in late medieval England Maureen Mulholland; 5 Judges and trials in the English ecclesiastical courts R.H. Helmholz; 6 The attempted trial of Boniface VIII for heresy1 Jeffrey Denton.
  • 7 Reasonable doubt: defences advanced in early modern sodomy trials in Geneva William G. Naphy8 Testifying to the self: nuns' narratives in early modern Venice Mary Laven; 9 The trial of Giorgio Moreto before the Inquisition in Venice, 1589 Brian Pullan; Index.

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