Offers a broader, more contextualized understanding of the function of ordeals in medieval literature and society. Medieval judicial ordeals, especially trial by fire or battle, conjure up vivid pictures in the modern imagination. Yet popular perceptions of the Middle Ages leave the reader without a context in which to understand these most drastic of medieval judicial remedies. This book analyzes literary texts that provide some of the most vivid and detailed accounts of the medieval ordeal: the dramatic treason trials in ...
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Offers a broader, more contextualized understanding of the function of ordeals in medieval literature and society. Medieval judicial ordeals, especially trial by fire or battle, conjure up vivid pictures in the modern imagination. Yet popular perceptions of the Middle Ages leave the reader without a context in which to understand these most drastic of medieval judicial remedies. This book analyzes literary texts that provide some of the most vivid and detailed accounts of the medieval ordeal: the dramatic treason trials in late medieval Charlemagne epics. The two epicschosen -- Stricker's Karl der Gro�e and the Karlmeinet -- treat trial by battle as the living legal reality it was in those times, yet display very different attitudes toward feud and punishment in their respective(13th- and 14th-century) societies. Gottfried's Tristan contains an ordeal by battle, of which the author approves, and an ordeal by fire, of which he does not, reflecting a common position of the intelligentsia of the time. Well after the condemnation of ordeals by the Fourth Lateran Council, the Kunigunde legend preserves the ordeal by fire much as it was portrayed in the mid-12th-century Richardis legend, while Stricker's short secular burlesque"The Hot Iron," written in the mid 13th century, makes sport of this formerly serious legal proceeding, reflecting its sudden abandonment as a legal proof following the council's decision. The study brings extensive background material in legal and cultural history to bear on literary texts, helping both medievalists and general readers understand the function of the ordeal in the texts as well as in the larger society for whom these works were written. Vickie L. Ziegler is professor of German and Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Hardcover with textured black paper over boards and gilt titles to spine, in dark blue and white glossy illustrated jacket, 8vo. Inscribed (probably by author) and dated (October 31, 2008) with no signature under author's name title page. xiii+234pp. Index, bibliography, appendices, endnotes with chapters. Fine/Fine. Book and jacket are as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart. neither ex-lib nor remainder.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Inscribed by Ziegler! First edition, 2004, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 234pp., not illustrated. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of shelfwear.
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