Ada Maria Kuskowski (University of Pennsylvania)

Vernacular Law

Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France

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Produktbeschreibung

Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the impact of writing, language, learned ideas and court practices on the development of customary law in medieval France. Applying a multidisciplinary approach, this book will interest scholars of medieval France across law, literature and history.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Legal History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 429
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 790g
• ISBN-13: 9781009217897
• ISBN-10: 1009217895
• Artikelnr.: 64108358

Autorenporträt

Ada Maria Kuskowski is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interdisciplinary approach weaves together history, law and literary approaches to understand how legal cultures developed in Europe. This is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: vernacular writing and the transformation of customary law in Medieval France
Part I. Written Custom and the Formation of Vernacular Law: 1. What is custom? Concept and literary practice
2. Composing customary law as a vernacular law
3. Writing a 'ius non scriptum': writtenness, memory and change
Part II. Political and Intellectual Tensions: 4. Uneasy jurisdictions: lay and ecclesiastical law
5. Roman law, authority and creative citation
Part III. Implications: 6. Custom in lawbooks and records of legal practice
7. Dynamic text: dialectic, manuscript culture and customary law
8. Implications of circulating text: crafting a French common law
Conclusion: lasting model and professional community
Bibliography
Index.