The Human Body in Barbarian Laws, c. 500 - c. 800 ― Corpus Hominis As a Cultural Category

The most important source of knowledge about the human body in the early medieval legal codes of Germanic people, explains Tyszka, are the regulation on varied crimes against the integrality and inviolability of the living human body. He covers the law books of Germanic peoples as a source for research into the human body; the concept of the human body in the Germanic legal codes and in early medieval narratives; the human body as an object of crime, body parts, their damage and violation, and the compensatory tariff system; and the perception of the human body and social differentiation among Germanic peoples. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Przemyslaw Tyszka received his PhD from Warsaw University. He is an assistant professor at the Institute of History of the Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin. His work focuses on the cultural history of medieval Europe, especially on human corporality, sexuality and gender.