VAN DEN VOS REINAERDE - Legal elements in a Netherlands epic of the thirteenth century

München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1970. This study was accepted in January 1968 as Ph. D. dissertation at Columbia University in New York. Contents: I). The legal background. 1). Administration of the law in thirteenth-century Flanders. 2). The Placitum Generale (Goudinc). 3). The thirteenth-century procedures. 4). The Court of the Counts of Flanders. 5). The Six Felonies, their definitions and concequences. 6). Outlaws and banished. 7). The relationship between secular law and canon law. 8). Mutilatilon. The defendant's situation in the trail. II). Van den vos Reinaerde. 1). The preliminary inquiry. 2). Delivery of the summons to trial. 3). Trial and sentence. 4). Preparation for the execution of the sentence and intervention by the king. 5). Reinaert's defence: He proves the exiatence of a conspiracy, offers damages to the Crown and moral expiation for his crimes. 6). Reinaert reconciled to King Nobel. 7). Cuwaert's murder, Reinaertt declared outlaw. III). Evaluation and summary. 1). The author's public. 2). Deviations from accepted procedure. 3). Legal procedure, theory and pratice. 4). Ethical significance of the trial presentation. With bibliography. 116 pag. . 1st edition. Sewed paperback. Good copy.. 23cmx15,5cm.