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Audun and the Polar Bear
Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business
Inbunden, 2008
2327 kr
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Audun’s Story is the tale of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland for no other reason than to give it to the Danish king, half a world away. It can justly be listed among the finest pieces of short fiction in world literature. Terse in the best saga style, it spins a story of …
Marriage Advice for a Pope
John XXII and the Power to Dissolve
Av Patrick Nold
Inbunden, 2008
2544 kr
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The Medieval Church taught that marriage was indissoluble and that consent was the key. Why then could a marriage be dissolved by one spouse joining a religious order after an exchange of consent but before consummation? This question vexed Thirteenth-century academics and, in the fourteenth …
Cáin Lánamna
An Old Irish Tract on Marriage and Divorce Law
Inbunden, 2009
3089 kr
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Cáin Lánamna "The Law of Couples", an Old Irish text dated to c. 700, is arguably the most important source of information concerning women and the household economy in early Ireland. The text describes all the recognized marriages and unions, both legal and illegal, and provides information …
Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768
Inbunden, 2009
2088 kr
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Despite growing scepticism concerning the evidentiary value of normative legal sources, scholars continue to mine the legislative acts of ecclesiastical councils for insight into political, religious, and quotidian life in Frankish Gaul. Between the reigns of Clovis and Charlemagne (AD 511-768) at …
Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna
Inbunden, 2010
3971 kr
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This book is the first to investigate the practice of summary justice in a late medieval Italian commune. In delineating the political and social context of that development in late medieval Bologna, it also is the first to study the phenomenon of oligarchy not only at the level of the executive …
English Law Before Magna Carta
Felix Liebermann and Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen
Inbunden, 2010
2931 kr
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Felix Liebermann’s Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903-1916) remains the single most important contribution to the study of early English law. This volume marks the Gesetze’s centenary by bringing together original essays by an international group of leading scholars specializing in medieval legal …
Function of Kinship in Medieval Nordic Legislation
Av Helle Vogt
Inbunden, 2010
2996 kr
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A strict definition of kinship – a canonical one – was in introduced in to the Nordic medieval legislation. This replaced a looser definition. According to a canonical definition of kinship – constructed after the Church’s incest prohibitions, you were obligated towards all your blood-relatives. …
Llawysgrif Pomffred
An Edition and Study of Peniarth MS 259B
Inbunden, 2011
2856 kr
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Llawysgrif Pomffred presents for the first time an edition of an overlooked Welsh law manuscript, Peniarth 259B. This is an important and groundbreaking edition which will contribute to our understanding of the relationship and development of the Welsh law texts. The manuscript contains a law text …
Legal Procedure and Practice in Medieval Denmark
Av Per Andersen
Inbunden, 2011
3828 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive examination of how the Fourth Lateran Council’s prohibition against trial by ordeal was implemented in Danish secular law and how it required both a fundamental restructuring of legal procedure and an entirely different approach to jurisprudence in practice. It …
Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600
Av Mia Korpiola
Inbunden, 2011
2689 kr
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Much research has been done on medieval marriage in the last decades. However, few books have a pronouncedly comparative approach. This book discusses how much was regional and universal in medieval marriage law and practices in Europe. The sources used range from secular and canon law to court …
Laws, Lawyers and Texts
Studies in Medieval Legal History in Honour of Paul Brand
Inbunden, 2012
3837 kr
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The essays in this volume in honour of Paul Brand, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, match his career and interests in the world of legal history as well as medieval social and economic history and textual studies. The topics explored include the Angevin reforms, legal …
Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation
Inbunden, 2016
2760 kr
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In Order in the Court, Brasington translates and comments upon the earliest medieval treatises on ecclesiastical legal procedure. Beginning with the eleventh-century “Marturi Case,” the first citation of the Digest in court since late antiquity and the jurist Bulgarus’ letter to Haimeric, the papal …
Ports, Piracy and Maritime War
Piracy in the English Channel and the Atlantic, c. 1280-c. 1330
Inbunden, 2013
2955 kr
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In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially depraved robbers and the enemy of all, but Heebøll-Holm shows that piracy was …
Law, Governance, and Justice
New Views on Medieval Constitutionalism
Inbunden, 2013
2952 kr
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How law is made, how governance works, and the response of the governed remain crucial modern questions whose roots in many parts of the world reach deep into the past of medieval England. Scholars have long discussed these issues and new perspectives regularly emerge. This volume brings together …
Disputing Strategies in Medieval Scandinavia
Av Kim Esmark
Inbunden, 2013
3036 kr
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In Scandinavia the study of disputes is still a relatively new topic: The papers offered here discuss how conflicts were handled in Scandinavian societies in the Middle Ages before the emergence of strong centralized states. What strategies did people use to contest power, property, rights, honour, …
Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages
Av Wendy Turner
Inbunden, 2014
3157 kr
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Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages offers fresh insight into the intersection between these two distinct disciplines. A dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine …
Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England
Inbunden, 2015
2606 kr
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Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth …
“Cum essem in Constantie…”: Raffaele Fulgosio and the Council of Constance 1414-1415
Inbunden, 2015
3090 kr
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In Cum essem in Constantie, Martin John Cable presents a study of the Padua university jurist Raffaele Fulgosio (Fulgosius) (1367-1427) and his work as an advocate at the Council of Constance in 1414-15.Through the use of archival material and evidence drawn from Fulgosio’s works, the book reveals …
Wergild, Compensation and Penance
The Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution
Av Lukas Bothe
Inbunden, 2021
2714 kr
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This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person’s status, to prevent and end conflicts, and to …
Raven’s Battle-cry: The Limits of Judgment in the Medieval Irish Legal Tract Anfuigell
Inbunden, 2019
2072 kr
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In A Raven’s Battle-cry Charlene M. Eska presents a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished medieval Irish legal tract Anfuigell. Although the Old Irish text itself is fragmentary, the copious accompanying commentaries provide a wealth of legal, historical, and linguistic …
Law and Language in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2018
2150 kr
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Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and …
Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages
Essays in Honour of William Ian Miller
Av Kate Gilbert
Inbunden, 2018
1948 kr
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Contributions to this Festschrift for the renowned American legal and literary scholar William Ian Miller reflect the extraordinary intellectual range of the honorand, who is equally at home discussing legal history, Icelandic sagas, English literature, anger and violence, and contemporary popular …
Planning for Death
Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600
Av Mia Korpiola
Inbunden, 2018
2150 kr
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The volume Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several European regions (England, Poland, Italy, South Tirol, and Sweden). Laws and customary practice provided a legal framework for all post-mortem …
New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research
Challenging the Master Narrative
Inbunden, 2019
2413 kr
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New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research offers a new narrative for medieval canon law history which avoids the pitfall of teleological explanations by taking seriously the multiplicity of legal development in the Middle Ages and the divergent interests of the actors involved. The contributors …
Rules and Rituals in Medieval Power Games
A German Perspective
Av Gerd Althoff
Inbunden, 2019
2296 kr
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Gerd Althoff´s new book collects fifteen of his more recent contributions, most of them previously published in German, which elucidate the functioning of prestate societies. Examples from the Frankish and later German realm (800-1200) are used to clarify how rules and political rituals governed …
Creating and Sharing Legal Knowledge in the Twelfth Century
Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 and Its Context
Inbunden, 2022
1996 kr
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The Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing critical insights into its genesis, linguistic features, and use of Roman Law, …
Municipal Magdeburg Law (Ius municipale Magdeburgense) in Late Medieval Poland
A Study on the Evolution and Adaptation of Law
Inbunden, 2021
2727 kr
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In this volume, Maciej Mikuła analyses the extant texts of the Ius municipale Magdeburgense, the most important collection of Magdeburg Law in late medieval Poland. He discusses the different translation traditions of the collection; the application of Magdeburg Law in cities; how differences …
Libri Feudorum (the ‘Books of Fiefs’)
An Annotated English Translation of the Vulgata recension with Latin Text
Inbunden, 2023
1948 kr
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The Libri Feudorum (the ‘books of fiefs’) are the earliest written body of feudal customs in Europe, codified in northern Italy c.1100-1250, which gave rise to feudal law as a branch of civil law. Their role in shaping modern ideas of feudalism has aroused an intense debate among medievalists, …
Lost and Found in Early Irish Law
Aidbred, Heptad 64, and Muirbretha
Inbunden, 2022
2754 kr
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Charlene M. Eska presents in this book a critical edition and translation of a newly discovered early Irish legal text on lost and stolen property, Aidbred. Although the Old Irish text itself is fragmentary, the copious accompanying commentaries provide a wealth of legal, historical, and linguistic …
Sourcebook on Byzantine Law
Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources
Av Daphne Penna, Roos Meijering
Inbunden, 2022
1902 kr
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This is the first book in English providing a wide range of Byzantine legal sources. In six chapters, this book explains and illustrates Byzantine law through a selection of fundamental Byzantine legal sources, beginning with the sources before the time of Justinian, and extending up to AD 1453.For …
