[PDF] Vernacular Law eBook

Author : Ada Maria Kuskowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 1009217909

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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.

Author : Ada Maria Kuskowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1009217895

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A new understanding of the transformative effect of vernacular writing on customary law in medieval France.

Author : Robert J. Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Customary law
ISBN :

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This is a discussion paper on customary law. The themes include: The colonial judical structure; Manipulation of customary law; and Conclusion.

Author : Sebastian I. Sobecki
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Common law
ISBN : 9780268041458

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Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition generated a vernacular legal culture that challenged the textual practices of English humanism and the early Reformation.

Author : Stephen Yeager
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1442696176

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The reappearance of alliterative verse in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries remains one of the most puzzling issues in the literary history of medieval England. In From Lawmen to Plowmen, Stephen M. Yeager offers a fresh, insightful explanation for the alliterative structure of William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the flourishing of alliterative verse satires in late medieval England by observing the similarities between these satires and the legal-homiletical literature of the Anglo-Saxon era. Unlike Old English alliterative poetry, Anglo-Saxon legal texts and documents continued to be studied long after the Norman Conquest. By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland’s Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators. His conclusions establish a new genealogy for medieval England’s vernacular literary tradition and offer a new way of approaching one of Middle English’s literary classics.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9004375767

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Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how the language of law legitimates power.