Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages - Frankish Formulae, C.500-1000

Klappentext Examines legal formularies from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods! and considers their problems and possibilities as historical sources. Zusammenfassung Legal formularies provide modern historians with information on many aspects of ordinary life in early medieval Europe! from labour and land agreements to cases which we would nowadays associate with criminal law. This book provides a detailed analysis of formularies! setting out their problems and possibilities as historical sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Formulae, Charters and the Written Word: 1. Orality and literacy in Frankish society; 2. An uneasy partnership? Formulae and charters; Part II. Inventory of the Evidence: 3. Defining the corpus; 4. Catalogue of collections; Part III. Formulae as a Historical Source: Limits and Possibilities: 5. Dating formulae; 6. Local context and diffusion; 7. From late antique notaries to ecclesiastical scribes: when, where and why formularies survive; 8. Formulae and written law; 9. A methodological test-case: slavery and unfreedom in the formularies; Conclusion; Appendix: a handlist of manuscripts.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Rio, Alice (Lecturer in Medieval European History Rio, Rio Alice
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107402836
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40283-6
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series; Print on Demand; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; Europe, European History, LAW / Legal History, CE period up to c 1500, Legal History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE