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, Norway and Wales.
Author(s): Thom Gobbitt (ed.)
Series: Explorations in Medieval Culture, 14
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 478
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements xi
List of Figures and Tables xii
Abbreviations xiii
Notes on Contributors xiv
Introduction: Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages / Thom Gobbitt 1
Part 1. Law-Books
1. Production and Content of the Fourteenth-Century Norwegian Law Manuscript 'Lundarbók' / Stefan Drechsler 17
2. Wulfstan and the Reordered 'Polity' of Cotton Nero A.i / Ben Reinhard 51
3. Liutprand’s Prologues in the 'Edictus Langobardorum' / Thom Gobbitt 71
4. More than Language: Law and Textual Communities in Medieval Frisia / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. 98
5. Law, Law-Books and Tradition in Early Medieval Ireland / Fangzhe Qiu 126
Part 2. Law and Society
6. 'De Divortio et de Resignatione': A Case of Carolingian Legal Precedent? / Jan van Doren 149
7. Reading the Law in Royal Government: 'Ius Commune' Texts and Administrative Mentalities in Thirteenth-Century England / Lucy Hennings 172
8. Discussing London and the 'Regnum Anglorum' after the 1204 Loss of Normandy / Katherine J. Har 197
9. The Inviolable Right: Property and Power in Medieval Scandinavian Laws and Society / Francesco Sangriso 220
Part 3. Legal Practice
10. Juridical Dualism in Medieval Southern Italy: Studies on the 'Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis' / Sonia Colafrancesco 253
11. Mortuary Proxies: Archaeological Contextualization of Medieval Legal Practices / Petar Parvanov 275
12. Expertise and Experience: Nuancing Terms for Legal Practitioners in the 'Íslendingasögur' / Hannah Burrows 296
13. Two Lombard Charters and Their Writers / Daniela Fruscione 317
Part 4. Text and Edition
14. 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 347
15. 'A Rather Laborious and Harassing Occupation': The Creation of the 'Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales' (1841) / Sara Elin Roberts 376
Bibliography 399
Index of Manuscripts 453
Index of Legal and Regulatory Texts and Commentaries 456
General Index 458
