If you (or the original sender) is really interested in the jurisdictional
issues, I might suggest that you (or they) look at Richard M. Wunderli,
_London Church Courts and Society on the Eve of the Reformation_, Speculum
Anniversary Monographs, No. 7 (Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America,
1981). Wunderli goes into the problem of jurisdictional boundaries in
considerable detail and draws both upon legal doctrine and records of
practice. He provides a statistical analysis of the practice data, as well
as some sample extracts from the records.
If the transvestite aspect of the report is what concerns you (or them), I
would suggest that a look at Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough, _Cross
Dressing, Sex, and Gender_ (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1993) might be a good place to start looking for the cultural and
historical context.
JAB
At 10:28 AM 4/29/00 +0100, you wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Carol A. Cole <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 3:48 AM
>Subject: Joan of Arc & the news from the Stews
>
>
>> At 12:03 AM 4/29/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>> >"At thys courte came Agneys Hopton who was appayraylled in a Mans Rayment
>> >and kept company with John Salmon Mynstrell beinge a maryed man ,,, [who]
>> >kept the sayd woman in mannes Rayment and mysused the same woman
>contrarye
>> >to the lawes of god and to the right perillous example of all other like
>> >offensors Wherefore yt is nowe orderyd that the sayd woman shalbe
>punysshed
>> >accordinge to the Judgement gevyn in the boke of Dunthorn fo.127 and the
>man
>> >on horsbakke wth his face to the horse tayle with a paper on his hed and
>to
>> >playe upon his owne Instrument afore her and proclamacon of the cause in
>> >Chepe and bothe the man and woman to be banysshed for one yere "
>> >
>> >what is the law of God that is being transgressed?
>>
>> Well, at the very least, adultery.
>
>adultery was not really the business of the city court from which this
>comes which is why I thought it was a good question for this forum...
>
>there were ecclesiastical courts for adultery and that sort of thing. The
>city court was much more interested in mercantile matters and public order.
>Normally they cite city ordinances as a basis for their jurisdiction. I
>suspect that misrepresentation (never popular with merchants!) is the
>justification here but the 'lawes of god' clause intrigued me at the time
>& the reference to the Rykener case brought it to mind again.
>
>John
>
>
>>
>> Best, Carol
>>
>> >Regards
>> >
>> >John A.W. Lock
>>
>> --------------------
>>
>> Augustine, to Truth: Your best servant is the one who does not attend
>> so much to hearing what he himself wants as to
>> willing what he has heard from you.
>> Confessions, Book X
>>
>
James A. Brundage
History & Law
University of Kansas
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