Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

The second part analyses the rise of the ownership and production of legal literature – especially legal books meant for laymen – as means for acquiring a degree of legal literacy from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-20
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:473 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319968629

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Mia Korpiola is Professor of Legal History at the University of Turku, Finland. She has (co-)edited several books, including Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600 (2011), The Svea Court of Appeal in the Early Modern Period (2014) and Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 (2018).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Mia Korpiola.- Part One: Legal Literates and Their Paths to Legal Literacy.- Legal Education in Late Medieval England: How did Provincial Scriveners Learn their Law?; Kitrina Bevan.- The Imperial Chamber Court as an Educational and Training Institution; Anette Baumann.- Legal Learning of Various Kinds: Swedish Court of Appeal Judges in the Seventeenth Century; Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen.- The Agency and Practical Learning of a Lay Advocate in Seventeenth-Century Helsinki: The Case of Gabriel Abrahamsson; Petteri Impola.- Ideal Types and Odd Men Out: Legal Literacy and Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Finland; Anna Kuismin.- Part Two: (Popular) Legal Literature as a Means to Legal Literacy.- Legal Literates in Eighteenth-Century Swedish Towns: Evidence of Book Ownership in Estate Inventories (Helsinki, Oulu, Porvoo and Kokkola); Mia Korpiola.- Popular Legal Manuals as Sources and Mechanisms of Acquiring Legal Literacy; AnnamariaMonti.- Acquiring Legal Literacy by Reading: Popular Legal Literature in Nineteenth Century France; Laetitia Guerlain and Nader Hakim.- Index.