Law Book Culture in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44834-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 920 g

Reihe: Explorations in Medieval Culture

In Law Book Culture in the Middle Ages fifteen contributions are brought together, each taking a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures and literate representations thereof. Four broad thematic approaches exploring the manuscript contexts and reception, of law and legal thought are considered: Law-Books, Law & Society, Legal Practice, and Text & Edition. The studies span the medieval period and reach across western and central Europe, closely considering facets of manuscript culture and legal literacies and practices from what are now Bulgaria, England, France and Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Wales.

Contributors are Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Hannah Burrows, Sonia Colafrancesco, Jan van Doren, Stefan Drechsler, Daniela Fruscione Pistoresi, Thom Gobbitt, Katherine J. Har, Lucy Hennings, Petar Parvanov, Fangzhe Dimurjan Qiu, Ben Reinhard, Sara Elin Roberts, Francesco Sangriso, and Chiara Simbolotti.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gobbitt, Thom

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Law Book Culture in the Middle Ages

Thom Gobbitt

Part 1 Law-Books

1 Production and Content of the Fourteenth-Century Norwegian Law Manuscript Lundarbók

Stefan Drechsler

2 Wulfstan and the Reordered Polity of Cotton Nero A.i

Ben Reinhard

3 Liutprand’s Prologues in the Edictus Langobardorum

Thom Gobbitt

4 More than Language: Law and Textual Communities in Medieval Frisia

Rolf H. Bremmer Jr

5 Law, Law-Books and Tradition in Early Medieval Ireland

Fangzhe Qiu

Part 2 Law & Society

6 De Divortio et de Resignatione: A Case of Carolingian Legal Precedent?

Jan van Doren

7 Reading the Law in Royal Government: Ius Commune Texts and Administrative Mentalities in Thirteenth-Century England

Lucy Hennings

8 Discussing London and the Regnum Anglorum after the 1204 Loss of Normandy

Katherine J. Har

9 The Inviolable Right: Property and Power in Medieval Scandinavian Laws and Society

Francesco Sangriso

Part 3 Legal Practice

10 Juridicial Dualism in Medieval Southern Italy: Studies on the Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis

Sonia Colafrancesco

11 Mortuary Proxies: Archaeological Contextualization of Medieval Legal Practices

Petar Parvanov

12 Expertise and Experience: Nuancing Terms for Legal Practitioners in the Íslendingasögur

Hannah Burrows

13 Two Lombard Charters and Their Writers

Daniela Fruscione

Part 4 Text & Edition

14 Lombard Juridical Tradition: A New Edition of Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS F.IV.1 fr. 11 (Turin, BNU), a Fragment of the Lombarda with Glosses

Chiara Simbolotti

15 ‘A Rather Laborious and Harassing Occupation’: The Creation of the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales (1841)

Sara Elin Roberts

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thom Gobbitt, Ph.D. (2010), University of Leeds, UK, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut für Mittelalterforschung of the Austrian Academy of the Sciences, Vienna. He has published on early English and Lombard law and law-books, and is currently working on the manuscripts of the Liber Papiensis in the long eleventh century.