{"product_id":"the-criminalization-of-abortion-in-the-west-its-origins-in-medieval-law-paperback-softback-9781501713651","title":"The Criminalization of Abortion in the West; Its Origins in Medieval Law (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501713651","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Criminalization of Abortion in the West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIts Origins in Medieval Law\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWolfgang P. Müller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501713651\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 May 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 1 chart\/graph - 1 Charts\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]he argumentation is intricate. To put it differently, this reader found that the importance of Criminalization rose to the surface upon a second reading. For, this is an important book, which will interest historians across the sub-disciplinary spectrum and not only late medievalists. It provides a stimulating account of the theoretical and practical development of medieval criminal justice and will become a sine qua non in the history of abortion.\u003c\/p\u003e - Zubin Mistry (The Mediæval Journal) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Criminalization of Abortion in the West\u003c\/i\u003e examines the processes which led to the voluntary killing of a human fetus becoming a crime, as opposed to a sin or a wrong compensable by a money payment....This book should be regarded as essential reading for those studying the interface between law and medicine in medieval Europe, to legal historians and social historians.\u003c\/p\u003e - Gwen Seabourne (Social History of Medicine) \u003cp\u003eMuller traces the tortuous path of the treatment of abortion as a public crime (felony) between the late 12th and early 16th centuries.... He succeeds in demonstrating the shift in the settlement of disputes from the pre-12th-century local control of justice depending on local power and the strength of family status to a more public hearing under the control of centralizing authorities.... Added to these public tribunals to investigate abortion as a crime was the widespread public attitude that regarded it as no more than a sin, if that, subject to confession to a priest and the performance of penance.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the Western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite different but interrelated historical trajectories. \u003c\/b\u003eOn one hand, there is the ancient Judeo-Christian condemnation of prenatal homicide as a wrong warranting retribution; on the other, there is the juristic definition of \"crime\" in the modern sense of the word, which distinguished the term sharply from \"sin\" and \"tort\" and was tied to the rise of Western jurisprudence. To find the act of abortion first identified as a crime in the West, one has to go back to the twelfth century, to the schools of ecclesiastical and Roman law in medieval Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this book, Wolfgang P. Müller tells the story of how abortion came to be criminalized in the West. As he shows, criminalization as a distinct phenomenon and abortion as a self-standing criminal category developed in tandem with each other, first being formulated coherently in the twelfth century at schools of law and theology in Bologna and Paris. Over the ensuing centuries, medieval prosecutors struggled to widen the range of criminal cases involving women accused of ending their unwanted pregnancies. In the process, punishment for abortion went from the realm of carefully crafted rhetoric by ecclesiastical authorities to eventual implementation in practice by clerical and lay judges across Latin Christendom. Informed by legal history, moral theology, literature, and the history of medicine, Müller's book is written with the concerns of modern readers in mind, thus bridging the gap that might otherwise divide modern and medieval sensibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. The Earliest Proponents of Criminalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Scholastic Origins of Criminal Abortion\u003cbr\u003e Forms of Sentencing in Medieval Jurisprudence\u003cbr\u003e Crimen in \"An Age without Lawyers\" (500–1050)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Early Venues of Criminalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCrimen in Sacramental Confession\u003cbr\u003e Judicial Crimen in the Ecclesiastical Courts\u003cbr\u003e Public Penitential Crimen\u003cbr\u003e Royal Jurisdiction in Thirteenth-Century England\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Chief Agents of Criminalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLegislation versus Juristic Communis Opinio\u003cbr\u003e Communis Opinio and Peer Dissent\u003cbr\u003e Systematic Law before the Rise of the Modern State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Principal Arguments in Favor of Criminalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuccessive Animation and Creatianism\u003cbr\u003e Legal and Theological Assessments of Therapeutic Abortion\u003cbr\u003e The Demise of Late Medieval Embryology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Objections to Criminalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCustomary Indifference North and East of the River Rhine\u003cbr\u003e Rejection in the Royal Courts of England (1327–1557)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Abortion Experts and Expertise\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEvidence of Midwifery\u003cbr\u003e Medical Embryology and Abortion Discourse\u003cbr\u003e Abortifacient Prescriptions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. Abortion in the Criminal Courts of the Ius Commune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCriminal Accusationes and Inquisitiones\u003cbr\u003e The Rules and Safeguards of Ordinary Inquisitiones\u003cbr\u003e Extraordinary Inquisitiones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. Forms of Punishment in the Criminal Courts of the Ius Commune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStatutory and Customary Specifications\u003cbr\u003e Substitute Penalties\u003cbr\u003e Adjustment Out of Court\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9. The Frequency of Criminal Prosecutions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eViable Statistical Queries\u003cbr\u003e Geography and Patterns of Record Keeping\u003cbr\u003e A Triad of Typical Cases\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52744445952280,"sku":"9781501713651","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-criminalization-of-abortion-in-the-west-its-origins-in-medieval-law-paperback-softback-9781501713651","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}