Chapter Two. The Public Welfare: Pollution And Purgation
Abigail Firey
This chapter seeks to investigate how religious perspectives on spiritual disorders migrated into legal definitions of public hazards and remedies became incorporated in jurisprudence. To clarify the perceptions that suspected culpability Theutberga was a matter concern, explores what seem modern eyes quaint sometimes horrifying constructs pollution purgation were part early medieval discourse about disordered sex thought their impact. understand some rationales undergirded (and perhaps modern) jurisprudence, it is useful rhetoric developed around concepts purgation. The shows tacit beliefs, by entry Carolingian written discourse, shaped ideas both use law protect also as remedy.Keywords: jurisprudence; hazards; purgation;
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