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Darrera modificació: 2016-02-09
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Ferragud, Carmel, "Expert examination of wounds in the criminal court of justice in Cocentaina (kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages", dins: Turner, Wendy J. - Butler, Sara M. (eds.), Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages, Leiden - Boston, Brill (Medieval Law and Its Practice, 17), 2014, pp. 109-132, ISBN 978-90-04-26906-4.
- Resum
- The introduction of expert medical testimony in the court of justice of Cocentaina at hte turn of the fourteenth century should be unsderstood as part of a double process. The first specific development was the founding and colonization of the kingdom of Valencia. The flow of migrans from different parts of Europe, who used the town eithe as a stopover or as their final destination, contributed to the introduction of innovations in a country under construction. The second processe was the medicalization of late medieval society. As a result of Islamic and Jewish influence and the villingness to embrace the achievements of science and new techinques, particularly in medicine, it was possible to establish in a small border town an expert judicial procedure that even the most famous European university cities had only recently implemented. There in no dobut that the existence of medical practitioners played an important part in encouraging colonists to settle and also in the implementation of mechanisms designed to improve judicial administration.
- Matèries
- Dret - Processos
Dret - Legislació
Història de la medicina
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
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