Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c.500–1000 - Couverture rigide

Rio, Alice

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521514991 ISBN 13 : 9780521514996

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Legal formularies are books of model legal documents compiled by early medieval scribes for their own use and that of their pupils. A major source for the history of early medieval Europe, they document social relations beyond the narrow world of the political elite. Formularies offer much information regarding the lives of ordinary people: sales and gifts of land, divorces, adoptions, and disputes over labour as well as theft, rape or murder. Until now, the use of formularies as a historical source has been hampered by severe methodological problems, in particular through the difficulty of establishing a precise chronological or geographical context for them. By examining Frankish legal formularies from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods, this book provides an invaluable, detailed analysis of the problems and possibilities associated with formularies, and will be required reading for scholars of early medieval history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alice Rio is Osborn Fellow in Medieval History and Culture, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521514991
• ISBN 13: 9780521514996
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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