Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Musson, Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages.

This book represents the first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages. Up until now historians have used medieval legal records to demonstrate the operation of legal rules, the functioning of legal institutions and the development of the legal profession, but they have rarely considered the attitudes that arose as a result of the processes of law. The papers in this volume investigate the way expectations of thelaw were generated, captured, revealed or replayed for posterity in medieval Europe in jurisprudential reasoning, the activity of charter writing, the framing of definitions of 'liberty', the concern for historical justifications, and the phraseology of various forms of legislation and chancery bills. Attitudes and perceptions are also considered with regard to the active role played by rulers of European states in law-giving and in the organisation of legal institutions. Contextualising some of the developments in medieval law, this volume not only enables generalisations to be made about expectations of the law, but also highlights the existence of national and supra-national similarities as well as differences arising in medieval Europe.Dr ANTHONY MUSSON teaches in the School of Law at the University of Exeter.Contributors: RICHARD W. KAEUPER, D. HEIRBAUT, M. KORPIOLA, JUDITH EVERARD, CYNTHIA J. NEVILLE, JULIA C. CRICK, H. SUMMERSON, G. SEABOURNE, G. DODD, T. HASKETT, ANTHONY MUSSON, C. STEBBINGS, P. TUCKER

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846150715
• Artikelnr.: 63205540

Autorenporträt

Anthony Musson

Inhaltsangabe

The King and the Fox: Reactions to the Role of Kingship in Tales of 'Reynard and the Fox'
Richard W Kaeuper Flanders: A Pioneer of State
Orientate Feudalism? Feudalism as an Instrument of Comital Power in Flanders During the High Middle Ages (1000
1300)Ages (1000
1300)
D Heirbaut 'The People of Sweden shall have Peace': Peace Legislation and Royal Power in Later Medieval Sweden
Mia Korpiola The 'Assize of Count Geoffrey' (1185): Law and Politics in Angevin Brittany
and Charter Writing and the Exercise of Lordship in Thirteenth
Century Celtic Scotland
Cynthia J Neville Liberty and Fraternity: Creating and Defending the Liberty of St Albans
Julia C Crick Counterfeiters, Forgers and Felons in English Courts, 1200
1400
Henry Summerson Law Morals and Money: Royal Regulation of the Substance of Subjects' Sales and Loans in England, 1272
1399
Gwen Seabourne The Hidden Presence: Parliament and the Private Petition in the Fourteenth Century
Gwilym Dodd Conscience, Justice and Authority in the Late
Medieval English Court of Chancery
T Haskett Appealing to the Past: Perceptions of Law in Late Medieval England
Anthony Musson Victorian Perceptions of Medieval Jurisprudence
C Stebbings Historians' Expectations of the Medieval Legal Records
P Tucker