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Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of customary vengeance thus never went away, and instead were fully incorporated into the new procedures.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Consumption of Justice
• Subtitle: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423
• Author: Daniel Lord Smail
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780801441059
• ISBN: 0801441056
• ID: 04706329
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 582 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 159 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. September 2003

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