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La logica dell'«inizio della storia» basata sull'invenzione della scrittura e sulla nascita delle civiltà risente ancora oggi della temporalizzazione del mondo proveniente dal quadro concettuale religioso di matrice ebraico-cristiana. Nei manuali di scuola la storia inizia tipicamente quando l'uomo diventa «cultura», se non apertamente quando riconosce un dio. L'immenso lasso di tempo che precede quel momento viene semplicemente ignorato, o al...

Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of cust...

As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers kept goods in circulation, and sergeants of the law marched into debtors¿ homes to seize belongings equal in value to debts owed. David Smail describes a material world on the cusp of modern capitalism.

How, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In bas strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women thought about their personal geography. His thorough research of property records of late medieval Marseille leads him to conclude that its inhabitants charted their city, its social structure, a...

Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil litigation, this book approaches the courts of law from the perspective of the users of the courts.

How did medieval society deal with private justice, with grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages.