Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe

Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe
Author: Jackson W. Armstrong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429553455

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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.

Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe

Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe
Author: Jackson W. Armstrong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429557922

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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.

Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe

Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe
Author: Jackson Webster Armstrong
Publisher: Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780367206796

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Investigating cultures of law in urban Northern Europe / Jackson W. Armstrong and Edda Frankot -- Telling tales : maritime law in Aberdeen in the early sixteenth century / J.D. Ford -- Common books in Aberdeen, c. 1398 - c. 1511 / William Hepburn and Graeme Small -- The language of medieval legal record as a complex multilingual code / Joanna Kopaczyk -- The vernacularisation of the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398-1511) / Anna D. Havinga -- Urban law in Norwegian market towns : legal culture in a long fourteenth century / Miriam Tveit -- The Burgh and the forest : Burgesses and officers in fifteenth-century Scotland / Michael H. Brown -- Pax Urbana. The use of law for the achievement of political goals / Jörg Rogge -- Recalcitrant brides and grooms. jurisdiction, marriage, and conflicts with parents in fifteenth-century / Ghent Chanelle Delameillieure and Jelle Haemers -- Legal business outside the courts : private and public houses as spaces of law in the fifteenth century / Edda Frankot -- Conflicts about property : ships and inheritances in Danzig and in the Hanse Area (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries) / Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz -- 'Malice' and motivation for hostility in the Burgh courts of late medieval Aberdeen / Jackson W. Armstrong -- Bells, clocks, and the beginnings of 'lawyer time' in late medieval Scotland / David Ditchburn -- Andrew Alanson : man of law in the Aberdeen Council Register, c. 1440 - c.1475? / Andrew R.C. Simpson -- Notaries and advocates in early modern Aberdeen / Adelyn L.M. Wilson.

Law and Legal Consciousness in Medieval Scotland

Law and Legal Consciousness in Medieval Scotland
Author: Hector L. MacQueen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004683763

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This book explores the rise of a Scottish common law from the twelfth century on despite the absence until around 1500 of a secular legal profession. Key stimuli were the activity of church courts and canon lawyers in Scotland, coupled with the example provided by neighbouring England’s common law. The laity’s legal consciousness arose from exposure to law by way of constant participation in legal processes in court and daily transactions. This experience enabled some to become judges, pleaders in court and transactional lawyers and lay the foundations for an emergent professional group by the end of the medieval period.

Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands

Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands
Author: Edda Frankot
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2022
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 3030888673

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This open access book analyses the practice of banishment and what it can tell us about the values of late medieval society concerning morally acceptable behaviour. It focuses on the Dutch town of Kampen and considers the exclusion of offenders through banishment and the redemption of individuals after their exile. Banishment was a common punishment in late medieval Europe, especially for sexual offences. In Kampen it was also meted out as a consequence of the non-payment of fines, after which people could arrange repayment schemes which allowed them to return. The books firstly considers the legal context of the practice of banishment, before discussing punishment in Kampen more generally. In the third chapter the legal practice of banishment as a punitive and coercive measure is discussed. The final chapter focuses on the redemption of exiles, either because their punishment was completed, or because they arranged for the payment of outstanding fines.

Local Customs and Common Laws

Local Customs and Common Laws
Author: J.D. Ford
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2024-05-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004695001

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Lawyers in Scotland in the later sixteenth century took a disproportionate interest in the law governing maritime commerce. Some essays in this collection consider their handling of the subject in treatises they wrote. Other essays, however, show that disputes relating to maritime trade were handled in a different way in the courts of the towns at which ships arrived. Further essays examine the relationship between these contrasting perspectives. Although the essays focus on the law governing maritime commerce in Scotland, they also contribute to a wider debate about the nature of maritime law in early-modern Europe.

Using Concepts in Medieval History

Using Concepts in Medieval History
Author: Jackson W. Armstrong
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2022-01-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030772802

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This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is ‘feudalism’, whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R. Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal article on the topic. The volume’s contributors offer a series of case studies of other concepts – 'colony', 'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic', 'networks' and 'politics' – that have been influential, particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between historical ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their dialogue.

Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2022-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110776871

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Die neue englischsprachige Reihe zur Mediävistik strebt eine methodisch reflektierte, anspruchsvolle Verbindung von Text- und Kulturwissenschaft an. Sie widmet sich den kulturellen Grundthemen der mittelalterlichen Welt aus der Perspektive der Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaft. ‚Grundthemen' sind die kulturprägenden Denkbilder, Weltanschauungen, Sozialstrukturen und Alltagsbedingungen des mittelalterlichen Lebens, also z. B. Kindheit und Alter, Sexualität, Religion, Medizin, Rituale, Arbeit, Armut und Reichtum, Aberglauben, Erde und Kosmos, Stadt und Land, Krieg, Emotionen, Kommunikation, Reisen usw. Die Reihe greift wichtige aktuelle Fachdiskussionen auf und stellt ein Forum der interdisziplinären Mittelalter-Forschung dar. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture steht Sammelbänden ebenso offen wie Monographien. Intention ist immer, kompendienhafte Werke zu zentralen Fragen der mittelalterlichen Kulturgeschichte vorzulegen, die einen soliden Überblick über einen geschlossenen Themenkreis aus der Perspektive verschiedener Fachdisziplinen vermitteln. Im Ganzen bietet die Reihe so eine Enzyklopädie der mittelalterlichen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte und ihrer Hauptthemen. Es werden ca. zwei Bände pro Jahr erscheinen.

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English
Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110687542

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Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled ‘Chancery Standard’, provided the mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts, personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose, multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes, standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology, vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions, social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers, text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting socioeconomic trends.

Law in Common

Law in Common
Author: Tom Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 019108848X

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There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance. While historians have long studied these institutions, there have been very few attempts to understand this complex institutional form of 'legal pluralism'. Law in Common provides a way of understanding this complexity by drawing out broader patterns of legal engagement. Tom Johnson first explores four 'local legal cultures'—in the countryside, in forests, in towns and cities, and in the maritime world—that grew up around legal institutions, landscapes, and forms of socio-economic practice in these places, and produced distinctive senses of law. Johnson then turns to examine 'common legalities', widespread forms of social practice that emerge across these different localities, through which people aimed to invoke the power of law. Through studies of the physical landscape, the production of legitimate knowledge, the emergence of English as a legal vernacular, and the proliferation of legal documents, the volume offers a new way to understand how common people engaged with law in the course of their everyday lives. Drawing on a huge body of archival research from the plenitude of different local institutions, Law in Common offers a new social history of law that aims to explain how common people negotiated the transformational changes of the long fifteenth century with, and through, legality.