Vernacular Law Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France
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Studies in Legal History
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 169.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.11.2022
Verlag
Cambridge University PressSeitenzahl
432
Maße (L/B/H)
23/16.3/3.2 cm
Gewicht
729 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-00-921789-7
"Custom was fundamental to medieval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay court where cases were resolved according to custom. What custom meant, however, went through a radical shift in the medieval period. Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, custom went from being a largely oral and performed practice to one that was also conceptualized in writing. Based on French lawbooks known as coutumiers, Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the repercussions this transformation - in the form of custom from unwritten to written and in the language of law from elite Latin to common vernacular - had on the cultural world of law. Vernacular Law offers a new understanding of the formation of a new field of knowledge: authors combined ideas, experience and critical thought to write lawbooks that made disparate customs into the field known as customary law"--
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