Vernacular Law : Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France Paperback / softback
by Ada Maria (University of Pennsylvania) Kuskowski
Part of the Studies in Legal History series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:430 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/08/2024
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- ISBN:9781009217880
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Pre-Order
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:430 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/08/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009217880
