Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England Paperback / softback
by Elizabeth Papp (Harvard Law School, Massachusetts) Kamali
Part of the Studies in Legal History series
Paperback / softback
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This book explores the role of mens rea, broadly defined as a factor in jury assessments of guilt and innocence from the early thirteenth through the fourteenth century - the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.
Drawing upon evidence from the plea rolls, but also relying heavily upon non-legal textual sources such as popular literature and guides for confessors, Elizabeth Papp Kamali argues that issues of mind were central to jurors' determinations of whether a particular defendant should be convicted, pardoned, or acquitted outright.
Demonstrating that the word 'felony' itself connoted a guilty state of mind, she explores the interplay between social conceptions of guilt and innocence and jury behavior.
Furthermore, she reveals a medieval understanding of felony that involved, in its paradigmatic form, three essential elements: an act that was reasoned, was willed in a way not constrained by necessity, and was evil or wicked in its essence.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 10 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/07/2020
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- ISBN:9781108712743
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 10 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/07/2020
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- ISBN:9781108712743