Routledge is publishing a book on
cultures of law in urban Northern Europe during the period 1350-1650.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Drawing together an international
team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume
investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on
Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and
Poland from c. 1350 to c. 1650.
In these essays, the contributors
seek to understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by
focusing specifically on the urban experience and, to a great extent, on urban
records. The contributions are concerned with understanding late medieval and
early modern legal experts as well as the users of courts and legal services,
the languages and records of law, and legal activities occurring inside and
outside of official legal fora. This volume considers what the expectations of
people at different status levels were for the use of the law, what perceptions
of justice and authority existed among different groups, and what their
knowledge was of law and legal procedure. By examining how different aspects of
legal culture came to be recorded in writing, the contributors reveal how that
writing itself then became part of a culture of law.
Cultures of Law in Urban Northern
Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650 combines the historical study
of law, towns, language, and politics in a way that will be accessible and
compelling for advanced level undergraduates and postgraduate to postdoctoral
researchers and academics in medieval and early modern, urban, legal,
political, and linguistic history.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Jackson W. Armstrong is a Senior
Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author
of England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century
Scottish Marches (2020).
Edda Frankot is
Associate Professor in History at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. She
specialises in late medieval urban, maritime and legal history. She is the
author of ‘Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen’. Medieval Maritime Law and its
Practice in Urban Northern Europe (2012).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Investigating Cultures of Law in
Urban Northern Europe
Jackson W. Armstrong and Edda
Frankot
PART I: TELLING TALES
Chapter 1: Telling
Tales: Maritime Law in Aberdeen in the Early Sixteenth Century
J.D. Ford
PART II: COMMUNICATION OF LAW
Chapter 2: Common
Books in Aberdeen, c. 1398 - c. 1511
William Hepburn and Graeme
Small
Chapter 3: The
Language of Medieval Legal Record as a Complex Multilingual Code
Joanna Kopaczyk
Chapter 4: The
Vernacularisation of the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398–1511)
Anna D. Havinga
PART III: JURISDICTION AND
CONFLICT
Chapter 5: Urban law
in Norwegian market towns: Legal culture in a long fourteenth century
Miriam Tveit
Chapter 6: The Burgh
and the Forest: Burgesses and Officers in Fifteenth-Century Scotland
Michael H. Brown
Chapter 7: Pax Urbana. The Use of Law for the Achievement
of Political Goals
Jörg Rogge
Chapter 8: Recalcitrant
Brides and Grooms. Jurisdiction, Marriage, and Conflicts with Parents in
Fifteenth-Century Ghent
Chanelle Delameillieure and
Jelle Haemers
PART IV: LAW IN PRACTICE, IN
AND OUT OF COURT
Chapter 9: Legal
Business Outside the Courts: Private and Public Houses as Spaces of Law in the
Fifteenth Century
Edda Frankot
Chapter 10: Conflicts
about Property: Ships and Inheritances in Danzig and in the Hanse Area
(Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
Chapter 11: ‘Malice’
and Motivation for Hostility in the Burgh Courts of Late Medieval Aberdeen
Jackson W. Armstrong
PART V: MEN OF LAW IN SCOTLAND
Chapter 12: Bells,
Clocks and the Beginnings of ‘Lawyer Time’ in Late Medieval Scotland
David Ditchburn
Chapter 13: Andrew
Alanson: Man of Law in the Aberdeen Council Register, c. 1440
- c. 1475?
Andrew R.C. Simpson
Chapter 14: Notaries
and Advocates in Early Modern Aberdeen
Adelyn L.M. Wilson
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