Legal practice and the written word in the early middle ages : Frankish formulae, c. 500-1000 / / Alice Rio [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Rio Alice
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 340.5/5
• Soggetto topico: Law, Frankish - History - To 1500; Formularies (Diplomatics); Forms (Frankish law) - History - To 1500; Law, Frankish
• Classificazione: 86.10; 15.70
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-293) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Orality and literacy in Frankish society -- An uneasy partnership? : formulae and charters -- Defining the corpus -- Catalogue of the collections -- Dating formulae -- Local context and diffusion -- From late antique notaries to ecclesiastical scribes : when, where and why formularies survive -- Formulae and written law -- A methodological test-case : slavery and unfreedom in the formularies -- Conclusion -- Appendix : A handlist of manuscripts.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Legal Practice & the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages
• Titolo autorizzato: Legal practice and the written word in the early middle ages
• ISBN: 1-107-19037-1; 1-282-15561-X; 9786612155611; 0-511-54037-X; 0-511-58135-1; 0-511-53893-6; 0-511-54071-X; 0-511-53810-3; 0-511-53977-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455518703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; ; 4th ser., 75.