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This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic "legal medievalism," or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular culture
For more than a century, filmmakers have used the "Middle Ages" to produce popular entertainment and comment on contemporary issues. Each of the twenty chapters in Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World represents an original contribution to our understanding of how medieval regulations, laws, and customs have been depicted in film. It offers a window into the "rules" of medieval society through the lens of popular culture.
This book includes analyses of recent and older films, avant-garde as well as popular cinema. Films discussed in this book include Braveheart (1995), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), The Last Duel (2021), The Green Knight (2021), The Little Hours (2017), and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), among others.
Each chapter explores the contemporary context of the film in question, the medieval literary or historical milieu the film references, and the lessons the film can teach us about the medieval world. Attached to each chapter is an appendix of medieval documentary sources and reading questions to prompt critical reflection.
Contents
Introduction
Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno, and Anthony Perron 1
Canon Law and the World of the Medieval Church
1. Between Royal Law and Canon Law in Becket (1964)
Anthony Perron 9
2. Relic Movement, Anathema, and Crusade in Pilgrimage (2017)
Sarah C. Luginbill 22
3. The Creation of the Franciscan Rule in Francesco (1989)
Nathan Melson 36
4. Poverty and Heresy in The Name of the Rose (1986)
M. Christina Bruno 49
5. Joan of Arc's Inquisitorial Trial of Faith in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Henry Ansgar Kelly 61
"Feudal" Law and the Customs of Lordship
6. The Chivalric Code in The Green Knight (2021)
Coral Lumbley 75
7. Crusading and Oath-Taking in Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Esther Liberman Cuenca 89
8. Forest Law in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Casey Ireland 101
9. Trial by Battle and Gendered Medievalisms in The Last Duel (2021)
Sara McDougall and David M. Perry 114
10. Animal Trials in The Advocate (1993)
Julie K. Chamberlin 126
Women and Representations of Premodern Law
11. Religious Women's Authority and Rules for Nuns in Vision:
From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Lucy C. Barnhouse 141
12. War, Family, and the Law of the Kyivan Rus in Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Asif A. Siddiqi 153
13. Church Law, Community Practice, and the Witch Trial That Wasn't in Sorceress (1987)
Rachel Ellen Clark and Lucy C. Barnhouse 166
14. The Myth of Jus Primae Noctis, or the "Right of the First Night," in Braveheart (1995)
Lorraine Kochanske Stock 180
15. Medieval Satire and the Canon Law of Claustration in The Little Hours (2017)
Spencer Strub 195
Religious Conflict and Forging Communities through Law
16. Late Roman Law, Women's Status, and Classical Education in Agora (2009)
Christopher Bonura 211
17. Depicting the Prophet, Social Justice, and the Pillars of Islam in The Message (1976)
Maria Americo 225
18. Lawful Language and Global North Encounters in The 13th Warrior (1999)
Daniel Armenti and Nahir I. Otaño Gracia 237
19. Jewish Assimilation and the Absent "Saracens" and Africans of Ivanhoe (1952)
Celia Chazelle 251
20. Medieval Science, the Spanish Inquisition, and Religious Violence in 1492:
Conquest of Paradise (1992)
Eugene Smelyansky 265
Acknowledgments 279
Contributors 281
Index 283
