Law, book, culture in the middle ages / / edited by Thom Gobbitt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819494903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 9789004448650; 9789004448346
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Explorations in medieval culture ; ; volume 14
• Disciplina: 349.409/02
• Soggetti: Law, Medieval; Law - Europe - History - To 1500; Law
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Unlimited users.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Production and content of the fourteenth-century Norwegian Law Manuscript, Lundarbók / Stefan Drechsler -- Wulfstan and the reordered polity of cotton nero A.i / Ben Reinhard -- Liutprand's prologues in the Edictus Langobardorum / Thom Gobbitt -- More than language : law and textual communities in medieval Frisia / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr -- Law, law-books and tradition in early medieval Ireland / Fangzhe Qiu -- De divortio et de resignatione : a case of Carolingian legal precedent? / Jan van Doren -- Reading the law in royal government : ius commune texts and administrative mentalities in thirteenth-century England / Lucy Hennings -- Discussing London and the Regnum anglorum after the 1204 Loss of Normandy / Katherine J. Har -- The inviolable right : property and power in medieval Scandinavian laws and society / Francesco Sangris -- Juridicial dualism in medieval southern Italy : studies on the Codex diplomaticus cavensis / Sonia Colafrancesco -- Mortuary proxies : archaeological contextualization of medieval legal practices / Petar Parvanov -- Expertise and experience : nuancing terms for legal practitioners in the Íslendingasögur / Hannah Burrows -- Two Lombard charters and their writers / Daniela Fruscione -- Lombard juridical tradition : a new edition of Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, ms F.iv .1 fr. 11 ; (Turin, BNU) : a fragment of the Lombarda with glosses / Chiara Simbolotti -- 'A rather laborious and harassing occupation' : the creation of the ancient laws and institutes of Wales (1841) / Sara Elin Roberts.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages fifteen contributions are brought together, each taking a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures and literate representations thereof. Four broad thematic approaches exploring the manuscript contexts and reception, of law and legal thought are considered: Law-Books, Law & Society, Legal Practice, and Text & Edition. The studies span the medieval period and reach across western and central Europe, closely considering facets of manuscript culture and legal literacies and practices from what are now Bulgaria, England, France and Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Wales. Contributors are Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Hannah Burrows, Sonia Colafrancesco, Jan van Doren, Stefan Drechsler, Daniela Fruscione Pistoresi, Thom Gobbitt, Katherine J. Har, Lucy Hennings, Petar Parvanov, Fangzhe Dimurjan Qiu, Ben Reinhard, Sara Elin Roberts, Francesco Sangriso, and Chiara Simbolotti"--