Through translated and annotated sources, this chapter explores the idea of human agency as the cause of the plague.

The documents in this chapter describe the relationships between the Normans and their neighbours in France, Maine, Anjou, Brittany, Aquitaine, Burgundy and Flanders.

This chapter explores Thomas Becket's period of exile in France.

Karl Polanyi engaged intensively in émigré politics in three subsequent periods: the early 1920s in Vienna, the mid-1940s in London, and the late 1950s and early 1960s in Canada. Representative samples of his correspondence from these three periods are included in this final part of this book. Polanyi was a prolific correspondent, and the letters included in this volume represent only a tiny fraction of his output. Those selected are clustered in periods during which he was engaged in political and intellectual projects with his Hungarian compatriots.

This part discusses technical terms for types of heretic or suspect such as believer, receiver, supporter, defender, counsellor, suspect and vehemently suspect. It includes a few papal bulls dealing with inquisition and some formulae for sentences for different sorts of crime in heresy and different penalties. The part also presents legal consultations on particular questions, most frequently those of the Avignon lawyers of 1235 and Guy Foulques. It also includes a selection of the consultative councils, as also of the Council of Toulouse of 1229, Raymond VII's statutes of 1233 and the Council of Beziers of 1246.

This chapter discusses the consequences of the British withdrawal and challenges the assumption that the overall process was led by the local call for self-determination. In one episode, Britain and the US rejected a plea for sovereign status from Ra’s al-Khaimah, one of the smaller ‘Protected States’. On the one hand, the independence of Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE meant that the new states possessed legal personalities equal to those of the former imperial metropole and superpowers. On the other hand, it also enabled both Britain and the US to maintain an international order favourable to the west by means of consensus and collaboration, whilst minimising direct involvement and the use of coercive measures. In the end, the whole process did not alter the collaborative relationship that had developed during the period of Britain’s informal empire, instead only entailing the rearrangement thereof.

This chapter explores the concerns and interests of the sex comedy film. There are several films that repeatedly acknowledge the sexual commodification of women. Most critics have recognised female virginity as the cycle's thematic core, but very few have engaged with the economic and cultural dimensions. It is also important to emphasise the extraordinary status of the heroine in the sex comedy. While few sex comedies are explicit in drawing attention to the heroine's virginity, most do single her out as different from other women. While the sentiments of the woman construct her as the object to be consumed, the sex comedy does not exclusively gender this relationship as male consumer, female object. Furthermore, the contradiction between male and female desires in the sex comedy exaggerates sexual difference to such an extent that it may seem that the couple are wholly incompatible. However, these desires are shaped by cultural ideology.

This chapter explores the variegated repercussions of the plague on the economy and, no less complex, on social and religious conduct.

This chapter discusses Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. The back cover of the 1990 Pandora Press edition described Oranges as the ‘touching and humorous account of an unusual childhood with an extraordinary mother’. The unusual child is a little girl teasingly called Jeanette who, like Jeanette Winterson, lives in a working-class town in Lancashire with her adoptive parents, Jack and Louie. Like Winterson's own mother, the fictional Jeanette's foster mother is a militant member of the Pentecostal Evangelical Church and has taken great pains to educate her daughter in her faith. The novel relates Jeanette's process of maturation from admiring and obedient child, to rebellious adolescent and ideologically self-assured and free adult, as the progressive revelation of her lesbianism clashes with her mother's religious and moral ideas.

This chapter presents translated and annotated sources on the topic of the plague in the British Isles.

Article 330 prohibited violating "public" modesty. Publicity was constituted either by space or by (institutional) structures that helped congregate a group of individuals in a certain space. In public spaces, any sexual exhibitionism was prohibited, even if there was no witness, and even if it took place in the most absolute darkness. Publicity was therefore the central element of the offense, which gave the crime its specificity within the penal framework to punish crimes and offenses against morality. Liability and publicity were two elements that overlapped when it came to private spaces. Despite everything, the possibility of taking precautions to limit visibility and accessibility of the private spaces differentiated them from public space by nature, such as streets. From the second half of the nineteenth century on, the courts began to require unprecedented conditions in order to consider precautions as sufficient.