New Arrival Clergy and Criminal Violence in Later Medieval England and Wales

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Clergy and Criminal Violence in Later Medieval England and Wales

By Peter D. Clarke
New Arrival Cambridge University Press April 2026

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ISBN-13
9781108843805
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
April 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Clergy formed a distinct and privileged group in later medieval society as regarded violent crime. Church law was intended to protect them from it, induce them to avoid it, and exempt them from secular justice following it. But in practice, were the clergy so separate from the violent culture around them and different from the laymen who dominated it? In the first full-length study of this subject in the later medieval period, Peter Clarke shows that clergy accused of violent and other crimes increasingly submitted to secular justice like laymen, seeking clerical immunity only as a last resort. It reveals that church authorities, in providing legal redress for clerical victims of lay violence, sought to heal divisions between laity and clergy, not to deepen them. Additionally, it explores the motives and contexts behind clerical involvement in violent crime, both as perpetrators and victims, revealing that clergy often acted similarly to laymen.

Table of Contents

List of tables
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Jurisdiction over violent clergy
2. Protecting clergy from violence
3. Clergy and contexts of criminal violence
4. Clergy as killers
Conclusion
Appendix 1. The Richard Atte Halle case
Appendix 2. Penances imposed by English church courts in Si quis suadente cases
Bibliography
Index
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