Cambridge University Press
Vernacular Law : Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France
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9781009217880
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9781009217880
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Vernacular Law : Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France
$38.33
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 |
| Publication Date: Aug 08, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1009217887 |
| ISBN-13: 9781009217880 |
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