Vernacular law: writing and the reinvention of customary law in medieval France
"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 tw...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge, UK New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Kuskowski, Ada, 1978-, Vernacular law : writing and the reinvention of customary law in medieval France] (2023) (Kamali, Elizabeth Papp)
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| Series/Journal: | Studies in legal history
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
France
/ Customary law
/ Anthropology of law
/ History 500-1500
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| Further subjects: | B
Customary law (France, Northern)
History To 1500
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic Electronic |
| Summary: | "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"-- Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | 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 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XVIII, 412 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-21789-7 978-1-009-21788-0 |
