Droit et violence dans la litterature du Moyen Age
edited by Philippe Haugeard and Muriel Ott
Paperback (Published)
(May 2013)
ISBN: 9782812409691
Price: $40.00
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Violence is a right in the Middle Ages, but a right which has limits. Sensitive to the place of violence in the society of its time, medieval literature allows us to engage with the complexity of a relationship between violence and law which is not, as it has since become, one of mutual exclusion.
- Edited by Philippe Haugeard
- Edited by Muriel Ott
Review - French Le mot, aujourd'hui, vaut condamnation : la violence est foncierement reprehensible et l'on attend de la societe qu'elle l'empeche ou la reprime, par le droit et la justice. Il n'en va pas de meme au Moyen Age ou la violence est une valeur ; exigee par l'honneur et forme naturelle de la vengeance, la violence est un droit, avec ses rituels parfois spectaculaires, qui n'a cependant pas tous les droits. La litterature medievale, sous toutes ses formes, temoigne de l'importance de la violence au sein de la societe de son temps ; ce faisant elle permet d'entrer dans la complexite - source de creation et d'interrogation - d'un rapport entre violence et droit qui n'est pas simplement, comme il l'est devenu, un rapport d'exclusion.
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