Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 412 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781009217873
Serie:
Studies in legal history
Inhalt:
"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"--
Anmerkung:
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Cornell University, 2013) issued under title: Writing custom : juristic imagination and the composition of customary law in thirteenth-century France
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction : vernacular writing and the transformation of customary law in Medieval France -- What is custom? Concept and literary practice -- Composing customary law as a vernacular law -- Writing a 'iusiusiusius non scriptum' : writtenness, memory and change' -- Uneasy jurisdictions : lay and ecclesiastical law -- Roman law, authority and creative citation -- Custom in lawbooks and records of legal practice -- Dynamic text : dialectic, manuscript culture and customary law -- Implications of circulating text : crafting a French Common Law -- Conclusion : lasting model and professional community.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781009217897
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781009217880
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kuskowski, Ada, 1978 - Vernacular law Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781009217897
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781009217880
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Rechtswissenschaft
Schlagwort(e):
Frankreich
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Gewohnheitsrecht
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Rechtsanthropologie
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Geschichte 500-1500
DOI:
10.1017/9781009217873
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