Justice and mercy: Moral theology and the exercise of law in twelfth-century England 1526125366, 9781526125361

Justice and mercy: Moral theology and the exercise of law in twelfth-century England 9781526125354

This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises

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Justice and Mercy: Moral Theology and the Exercise of Law in Twelfth-Century England 152612534X, 9781526125347

'Justice and mercy' argues that our understanding of the creation of the English common law cannot be complete

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Justice and mercy: Moral theology and the exercise of law in twelfth-century England (Artes Liberales) [1 ed.] 9781526125347, 152612534X

This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice. It demonstrates that

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Power and Justice in Medieval England: The Law of Patronage and the Royal Courts 9780300164718

How the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common law

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Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England: Drama, Law, and Emotion 9781487537432

Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespear

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Jansenism and England: Moral Rigorism across the Confessions (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs) 9780192548597, 9780198816652, 019254859X

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Jansenism and England: Moral Rigorism across the Confessions (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs) 9780198816652, 0198816650

Jansenism and England: Moral Rigorism across the Confessions examines the impact in mid- to later-seventeenth-century En

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Biblical Ethics: Tensions Between Justice and Mercy, Law and Love 9781463239459, 1463239459

Biblical theology is confronted with tensions between love and justice. There are sometimes attempts to avoid these tens

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Law, Liberty And Church: Authority And Justice in the Major Churches in England (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies) 9780754654377, 9781315591629, 0754654370

Law, Liberty and Church examines the presuppositions that underlie authority in the five largest Churches in England - t

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Criminology and Public Theology: On Hope, Mercy and Restoration 9781529207415

At a time when criminal justice systems appear to be in a permanent state of crisis, leading scholars from criminology a

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