law resources?

[burntcopper]

gah. my google-fu is weak. I honestly don't know what search terms to use - trying to get an idea of what the laws and punishments *were* in medieval period - basically what would be practical to enforce in that sort of tech era.

searching on things like english law, anglo-saxon, norman, medieval, etc gets me how the laws were enacted, procedure, different types, how you could bring a case before someone, but nothing about what the laws actually *were*.

The closest I can find is the magna carta, which is the right era-ish (my brain for some reason defaults the Golden Age of Narnia to Plantagenet period, and it's easier for the brain to just keep going with that than confuse it) but with a few more human rights and status for women. Vaguely disturbs me that I can find Forest Law pretty easily but civil/anything that wasn't to do with hunting and game? Gah. Then of course, I've got to figure out the differences between that and Telmarine law which i suspect is something pre-tudor, but considering the pirates that apparently *settled* telmar were from the early 20th century, suspecting they were making it up as they went along.

anyone got any search terms?

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[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

This book, much of which is right there on googlebooks, has a good chapter containing some of what you're looking for (including the Laws of Athelbert: penalty for lying with a commoner's serving maid = 6 shilling fine).

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Have you tried this? Might find some primary sources on there... if you're lucky...

Sadly, I have to tell you that the book you want, 'The Making of English Law vol 2' by Patrick Wormald, was never written because he died of alcoholism or related illnesses.

Otherwise I suggest asking little_details or medieval_studies.

AHAHAH. This is what you're after. The previous one is available on googlebooks too, but apparently not the next volume.

[rivier.livejournal.com]

Drive-by stranger, hello! I just tried "medieval punishment and crime" and it seemed to come up with a fair bit of stuff about the mediaval punishments in this country and what they were meted out for, although some of it is pretty superficial and you may well have seen most if not all of it already?

[dario006.livejournal.com]

http://www.netserf.org/Law/Common/
Has some links that might help.

[omylouse.livejournal.com]

Can't help but am amused this is the second post in my flist today that mentions bad google-fu!

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

it's a legitimate term. :scowls:

(or to put it another way to really annoy the grammar snobs - everyone understands it, and shakespeare verbed a buncha nouns.)

:sigh: I want to be my dad. he can normally find anythign on the web in ten minutes.