Criminal Law and Society in Late Medieval and Tudor England

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Cynthia Herrup ◽  
John G. Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Tudor England

VII. Ightham Mote: Politics and Architecture in Early Tudor England

Archaeologia ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 153-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Starkey
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Country Houses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Four Square ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Steep Hill

Ightham Mote in Kent is one of the most beautiful of English country houses; it is also one of the most important. It stands at the foot of a steep hill, four-square and surrounded by the moat that gives it its name. Directly from the water rises the picturesquely irregular exterior. Most of the lower courses and the whole west or gatehouse front are of Kentish ragstone; much of the upper storey, however, is half-timbered. This mixture reveals the chief fact in the history of the house. It is a late medieval building, extensively remodelled in the early sixteenth century (pl. LII).The works were carried out by Sir Richard Clement, a minor Tudor courtier (pl. LIII a), and they embody his political and social ambitions with remarkable faithfulness. At the same time, the clarity of Clement's statement reflects back on his own society and raises important questions about the nature of both early Tudor art and politics and the relationship between them. I begin by tracing Clement's career to the time of his purchase of Ightham Mote; then the rebuilding of the house is described and its decorations placed within the context of the early Tudor court style; finally, the possible political significance of the style is explored, partly in terms of its origins and partly through an account of Clement's later career as a Kentish gentleman.

Local responses to the poor in late medieval and Tudor England

1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie K. McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Public Assistance ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Poor Relief ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Deserving Poor

The leaders of English villages and towns between 1388 and 1598 accepted that deserving poor people, those unable to work to support themselves, warranted private and, if necessary, public assistance. Poverty was objectively mild in the century after the 1349 plague. Economic and demographic developments between c. 1465 and 1530 increased the number of poor people. Religious and political changes of the mid-sixteenth century forced individuals and parishes to assume virtually the entire burden of poor relief. Parliamentary legislation empowered local authorities to raise compulsory taxes for support of the poor. In Elizabeth's reign the problems of poverty intensified, forcing nearly all parishes to use taxation at least in bad years.

The Noose Hidden Under Flowers: Marriage and Law in Saint Ronan’s Well

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
General Point ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Waverley Novels ◽  
The Law ◽  
Harsh Critique

This chapter explores issues of the law on marriage in novels by Sir Walter Scott, focusing on Saint Ronan's Well. In a number of ways, Scott's novels can be viewed as offering a commentary on Scots law and society. Legal themes that emerge from them can indicate more general contemporary legal concerns. This general point has been demonstrated in Bruce Beiderwell's argument that the Waverley novels made an important contribution to general discourse about crime and punishment at a crucial period in the development of new penal strategies and of reform in the criminal law. The chapter argues that the theme of marriage is central to Saint Ronan's Well and shows that the novel offers a harsh critique of aspects of the Scots law on the constitution of marriage and, at another level, of that other union — the political one of Scotland with England.

Introduction

Law in Common ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Tom Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Sources ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Late Medieval England

The introduction sets up the main arguments and problems of the book. It opens with three short case studies, through which we are introduced to the kinds of people who will be encountered in the book. It gradually builds up the complex picture of legal pluralism in late-medieval England, and draws this together with the broader problems facing the historiography of law and society, namely, the problem of differentiating ‘the legal’ from ‘the social’ in a model where they are mutually constitutive. It goes on to suggest two frameworks for doing this: first, through the concept of ‘local legal cultures’, as the distinctive senses of law produced within constellations of local environments, socio-economic patterns, and legal institutions; and second, through the notion of ‘common legalities’, widespread practices through which ordinary people differentiated law from the social, both inside and outside of legal institutions. Finally, it explains the extent and range of local sources used to ground the book’s arguments, and the methodology employed in reading them as texts.

Contumacy, Defense Strategy, and Criminal Law in Late Medieval Italy

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-132
Author(s):  
Joanna Carraway
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Early Morning ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Reggio Emilia ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Defense Strategy ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
The Law

It is easy to imagine that on this early morning in 1395, Antonius, realizing the magnitude of his actions, had little time to fabricate a defense or construct a plan. In late fourteenth-century Reggio Emilia, flight was often the most desirable path open to those suspected of perpetrating felonies. Subsequent witnesses in this murder investigation speculated that Antonius fled the territory of the Villa de Vetto before the first light of day less to evade the law than to avoid the wrath of Caterina's relatives. Propelled by the need to escape retribution, Antonius, like almost half the defendants cited by the criminal court of Reggio Emilia, fled rather than appear before the criminal judge.

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