Publications by Belle Tuten
I'm interested in the legal history of western France in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. I'm fascinated by how people solve their problems when they have limited access to law courts, procedure and precedent. Right now, I'm working on a project that will examine a large number of lawsuits between monasteries in this period to discuss how ideas of custom, precedent, and canonical reasoning shaped lawsuits within the church. As a secondary interest, I also like to explore how women operated in these complex and heavily stratified legal processes.
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Feud, Violence and Practice: Essays in Medieval Studies in Honor of Stephen D. White. Editor, with Tracey L. Billado. Forthcoming, 2009, Ashgate.
- "Fashion and Benefaction in Twelfth-Century Western France," in Emilia Jamroziak and JanetBurton, eds., Religious and Laity in Northern Europe 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation and Power (Turnhout, BE: Brepols, 2006), 41-62.
- "Who was Lady Constance of Angers? Nuns as poets and correpondents at the monastery of Ronceray d'Angers in the early twelfth century," Medieval Perspectives 19(2004): 255-268.
- "Women and Ordeals," in Warren C. Brown and Piotr Gorecki, eds., Conflict in Medieval Europe (London: Ashgate, 2003), 163-174.
- "Politics, Holiness and Property in Angers, 1080-1130," French Historical Studies 24:4 (Fall 2001): 601-618.
- "Convents," in The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature, ed. Eva Sartori (New York: Greenwood Press, 1999), 125-126.
- "Disputing Corpses: Le Ronceray d'Angers versus Saint-Nicolas d'Angers, 1080-1145," Medieval Perspectives 10 (1995): 178-188.