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Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoHistorians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more] -
Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoHistorians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more] - Load More
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