Introduction
Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno, and Anthony Perron | 1
Canon Law and the World of the Medieval Church
1. Between Royal Law and Canon Law in Becket (1964)
Anthony Perron | 9
2. Relic Movement, Anathema, and Crusade in Pilgrimage (2017)
Sarah C. Luginbill | 22
3. The Creation of the Franciscan Rule in Francesco (1989)
Nathan Melson | 36
4. Poverty and Heresy in The Name of the Rose (1986)
M. Christina Bruno | 49
5. Joan of Arc's Inquisitorial Trial of Faith in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Henry Ansgar Kelly | 61
"Feudal" Law and the Customs of Lordship
6. The Chivalric Code in The Green Knight (2021)
Coral Lumbley | 75
7. Crusading and Oath-Taking in Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Esther Liberman Cuenca | 89
8. Forest Law in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Casey Ireland | 101
9. Trial by Battle and Gendered Medievalisms in The Last Duel (2021)
Sara McDougall and David M. Perry | 114
10. Animal Trials in The Advocate (1993)
Julie K. Chamberlin | 126
Women and Representations of Premodern Law
11. Religious Women's Authority and Rules for Nuns in Vision:
From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Lucy C. Barnhouse | 141
12. War, Family, and the Law of the Kyivan Rus in Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Asif A. Siddiqi | 153
13. Church Law, Community Practice, and the Witch Trial That Wasn't in Sorceress (1987)
Rachel Ellen Clark and Lucy C. Barnhouse | 166
14. The Myth of Jus Primae Noctis, or the "Right of the First Night," in Braveheart (1995)
Lorraine Kochanske Stock | 180
15. Medieval Satire and the Canon Law of Claustration in The Little Hours (2017)
Spencer Strub | 195
Religious Conflict and Forging Communities through Law
16. Late Roman Law, Women's Status, and Classical Education in Agora (2009)
Christopher Bonura | 211
17. Depicting the Prophet, Social Justice, and the Pillars of Islam in The Message (1976)
Maria Americo | 225
18. Lawful Language and Global North Encounters in The 13th Warrior (1999)
Daniel Armenti and Nahir I. Otaño Gracia | 237
19. Jewish Assimilation and the Absent "Saracens" and Africans of Ivanhoe (1952)
Celia Chazelle | 251
20. Medieval Science, the Spanish Inquisition, and Religious Violence in 1492:
Conquest of Paradise (1992)
Eugene Smelyansky | 265
Acknowledgments | 279
Contributors | 281
Index | 283
