Community regulation and its effects
The aggressive actions of parishioners against priests and women in Paris, 1483–1505
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11892973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tiffany D Vann Sprecher (0000-0002-1677-2924, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 494-510 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Medieval History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4181 • E-ISSN: 1873-1279 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03044181.2016.1188410 |
| OpenAlex | W2505810097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
At the start of the sixteenth century, the archidiaconal court of Paris lacked centralised means of enforcement and relied heavily on parishioners to supervise one another and their priests. This article analyses cases from court registers dating from 1483 to 1505 that detail instances in which parishioners reacted aggressively to illicit contact between priests and women. It argues that the court appropriated parishioners' intimidating and sometimes violent separations of priests and women as a means to enforce ecclesiastical statutes calling for strict domestic segregation between the two. While the court relied upon the aggression of parishioners, it also protected priests, more than women, against extreme actions such as assault. The decisions made by the court created a system in which violence against women could be an acceptable means for enforcing its statutes at parish level
Aggression · Criminology · Enforcement · Political science · Sociology · Statute · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |