IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1328: Rules and Boundaries: Law and Crime in 14th-Century England
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Society for Fourteenth Century Studies |
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| Organiser: | James Bothwell, School of History, University of Leicester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 1328-a | Borough Customary Law and Civic Officials in the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law |
| Paper 1328-b | Sedition, Subsistence, and Suspicious Foresters: Poaching in 14th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
| Paper 1328-c | You 'Demeaned her Tenderness': Child Sexual Abuse in the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Sexuality |
| Abstract | This panel looks at rules, and the breaking thereof, in the later Middle Ages. Cuenca explores the increasing emphasis on office-holding in the customary law, particularly in Beverley, Bristol, Colchester, Norwich, and New Romney, with an analysis of customs dealing with elections and oath-taking. Salisbury assesses contemporary legal and political theory concerning the act of poaching, and how poaching was utilised as a means of expressing political discontent. Finally, Kissane considers the vexed issue of child abuse by analysing the case of Hugh de Outhorp, and questions the responses of local government. From seemingly mundane issues connected with customary law, through to more serious crimes of poaching and child abuse, these papers examine both how the authority worked, and failed to work, in 14th-century England. |