We learned of the publication of “Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages” by Brill.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Medieval
laws, regulatory texts and legal/normative structures have left their trace in
the historical record in numerous forms. This edited collection brings together
fifteen contributions, each taking a detailed view on the role of manuscripts
and the written word in legal cultures and literate representations thereof,
spanning much of the Middle Ages, from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries
and beyond. The title of this collection deliberately invites creative
engagement from its contributors and readers alike, with the parts, ‘law’,
‘book’ and ‘culture’ each being able to standalone, but being open equally to
combination. The contributions stand at the intersection of the cultures of
books and documents, and the cultures of law and normative regulation. Where
these two broad strands of law and books meet, the reader is inevitably brought
to the various facets of legal literacy, and these form an underlying thread
that is woven throughout the chapters. While the manuscripts and book cultures
of law form the underlying thread, this topic is approached from numerous
angles that inform on each other to produce a multifaceted interpretation of
legal literacies across the span of the Middle Ages. The study of the cultures
of books and documents of laws and legal texts offered here draws upon the same
range of written sources, but is further augmented with other literary and
historiographic items. 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.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Thom
Gobbitt, Ph.D. (2010), University of Leeds, UK, is a postdoctoral researcher at
the Institut für Mittelalterforschung of the Austrian Academy of the Sciences,
Vienna. He has published on early English and Lombard law and law-books, and is
currently working on the manuscripts of the Liber Papiensis in
the long eleventh century.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Thom Gobbitt, “Introduction: Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages”
Part I: Law-Books
Chapter
One, Stefan Drechsler, “Production and Content of the Fourteenth-Century
Norwegian Law Manuscript Lundarbók”
Chapter
two, Ben Reinhard, “Wulfstan and
the Reordered Polity of Cotton Nero A.i”
Chapter
three, Thom Gobbitt, “Liutprand’s Prologues in the Edictus Langobardorum”
Chapter four, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, “More than Language: Law and
Textual Communities in Medieval Frisia”
Chapter five, Fangzhe Qiu, “Law, Law-Books and
Tradition in Early Medieval Ireland”
Part II: Law
& Society
Chapter six, Jan Van Doren, “De Divortio et de
Resignatione: A Case of Carolingian Legal Precedent?”
Chapter seven, Lucy Hennings, “Reading the Law in Royal Government: Ius
Commune Texts and Administrative Mentalities in Thirteenth-Century
England”
Chapter eight, Katherine J. Har, “Discussing London
and the Regnum Anglorum after the 1204 Loss of Normandy”
Chapter nine, Francesco Sangriso, “The Inviolable
Right: Property and Power in Medieval Scandinavian Laws and Society”
Part III: Legal Practice
Chapter ten, Sonia Colafrancesco, “Juridicial Dualism in Medieval
Southern Italy: Studies on the Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis”
Chapter eleven, Petar Parvanov, “Mortuary Proxies:
Archaeological Contextualization of Medieval Legal Practices”
Chapter twelve, Hannah Burrows, “Expertise and Experience:
Nuancing Terms for Legal Practioners in the Íslendingasögur”
Chapter thirteen, Daniela Fruscione, “Two Lombard
Charters and their Writers”
Part IV: Text & Edition
Chapter fourteen, Chiara Simbolotti, “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”
Chapter fifteen, Sara Elin Roberts, “‘A Rather
Laborious and Harassing Occupation’: The Creation of the Ancient Laws and
Institutes of Wales (1841)”
The
publisher’s details on the book can be found here: Law |
Book | Culture in the Middle Ages | Brill
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