Sexuality, Law and Legal Practice and the Reformation in Norway

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17364-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: The Northern World

Based on legislation and legal practice from the period c. 1250-1600 the book takes issue with the most important viewpoints in earlier research by early modernists: that the Reformation represented a watershed in a development characterized by greater criminalisation of sexual acts, increase in the severity of sentences and deterioration of the position of women. According to this study, in principle all or mostly all factors were already in place in the Middle Ages. In Norwegian historiography the period investigated is characterized by paucity of sources, and the period has tended to fall between two stools, respectively the medievalist and the early modernist. The ambition of this book has been to bridge the gap.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Norwegian legal history and the history of illicit sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riisøy, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part A Criminilisation of Sexual Acts
1. New Laws, Old Principles
2. Individual Criminal Responsibility
3. The Final Criminalisation of Sexual Acts

Part B Punishment
4. Capital Punishment
5. Fines and Confiscation of Property
6. From Penance to chruch Discipline
7. The Reward of Sin

Part c Gener Quality?
8. Who Was Punished, and For What
9. Losing One's Inheritance
10. Sexual Crimes as a Function of Marriage
11. Gender Differences

Conclusion The Long High Middle Ages

Appendix
Sources and Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Irene Riisøy, Ph.D. (2006) in History, University of Oslo, is a Research Fellow at the University of Oslo. Her main field of interest is Norwegian legal history on which she has published a number of articles.