Voices from the Bench: The Narratives of Lesser Folk in Medieval Trials (Hardcover)

Introduction; M.Goodich Microhistory and the Taste for Details in the Judicial Narratives of Canonization Trials and Witch Trials; G.Klaniczay The Inquisitor and the Shepherd; Or, Inside and Outside Pierre Maury; J.H.Arnold Attesting the Ordinary: Oral and Personal History in the Records of English Ecclesiastical Courts; R.Swanson The World of Witnesses and the Holy Tribunal: 15th Century Trials of Castilian Judaizers; R.L.Melammed A Case of Demonic Possession in Fifteenth-Century Brittany: Perrinus Hervei and the Nascent Cult of Vincent Ferrer; L.Smoller A Rape Trial in Saint Eloi: Sex, Seduction and Justice in the Seigneurial Courts of Medieval Paris; E.R.Yahil The Multiple Miseries of Dulcia of St. Chartier (1266), Jeanne Laboysans of Crosses (1266) and Cristina of Wellington (1294); M.Goodich The Toddler in the Ditch: Parental Negligence?; R.Finucane The Customs and Symbolism of Consumption: Food and Wine in Witness Depositions from Late Medieval Marseille; D.L.Smail Conflicting Narratives: Two Women in Chancery, c. 1493-1500; C.Beattie The Inquisitorial Perspectives of an Unmarried Mulatta Woman in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Mexico; A.Megged