Disputes and Settlements : Law and Human Relations in the West (Paperback)

Editor's note; 1. The study of dispute: anthropological perspectives Simon Roberts; 2. Beati pacifici: bishops and the law in sixth-century Gaul Edward James; 3. Law and love in the Middle Ages Michael Clanchy; 4. Sumptuary law and social relations in Renaissance Italy Diane Owen Hughes; 5. The blood feud in Early Modern Scotland Jenny Wormald; 6. A golden age of litigation: Castile, 1500?1700 Richard L. Kagan; 7. 'Such disagreement betwyx neighbours': litigation and human relations in Early Modern England J. A. Sharpe; 8. Household disputes and the law in Early Modern Andalusia James Casey; 9. The arbitration of disputes under the Ancien Regime Nicole Castan; 10. Conjugal settlements: resort to Clandestine and common law marriage in England and Wales, 1650?1850 John R. Gillis; 11. Postscript John Bossy; Index.