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

Livre 35 sur 83: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth

Rio, Alice

 
9781107402836: Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c. 500-1000
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ISBN 10 : 1107402832 ISBN 13 : 9781107402836
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107402832
ISBN 13 
9781107402836
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Broché
Nombre de pages
312
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9780521514996: Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c.500–1000

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521514991 ISBN 13 :  9780521514996
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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