{"product_id":"law-and-language-in-the-middle-ages-9789004342675","title":"Law and Language in the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaw and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and chronological scope showcases how power, legitimacy and language interact, moving the discussion beyond traditional issues of identity or the formation of nation-states and their institutions. What emerges are different strategies reflective of the diverse and pluralistic political, legal, and cultural worlds of the Middle Ages.   Contributors are Michael H. Gelting, Dirk Heirbaut, Carole Hough, Anette Kremer, Ada Maria Kuskowski, Anders Leegaard Knudsen, André Marques, Matthew McHaffie, Bruce O’Brien, Paul Russell, Werner Schäfke, and Vincenz Schwab.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Notes on Contributors  List of Illustrations  Introduction   Jenny Benham, Matthew McHaffie, and Helle Vogt    part 1 Translation and Interpretation of Law  1 Why Laws Were Translated in Medieval England: Access, Authority, and Authenticity   Bruce O’Brien    2 Translating Justinian: Transmitting and Transforming Roman Law in the Middle Ages   Ada Maria Kuskowski    3 Leges Iutorum: The Medieval Latin Translation of the Law of Jutland   Michael H. Gelting    4 The Languages and Registers of Law in Medieval Ireland and Wales   Paul Russell    part 2 The Languages of Legal Practice and Documentary Culture  5 Latin and the Vernacular in Medieval Legal Documents:  The Case of Denmark   Anders Leegaard Knudsen    6 Between the Language of Law and the Language  of Justice:  The Use of Formulas in Portuguese Dispute Texts  (Tenth and Eleventh Centuries)   André Evangelista Marques    7 The Dangers of Using Latin Texts for the Study of Customary Law:  The Example of Flemish Feudal Law during the High Middle Ages   Dirk Heirbaut    8 Sources of Legal Language: The Development of Warranty Clauses  in Western France, ca.1030–ca.1240   Matthew McHaffie    part 3 Methodology, Interaction, and Language  9 Law and Language in the Leges Barbarorum: A Database Project  on the Vernacular Vocabulary in Medieval Manuscripts   Anette Kremer and Vincenz Schwab    10 ‘And since We are No Lawyers, We Will Void the Lawsuit with Battle Axes’! Voiding a Lawsuit in Old Icelandic Procedural Law   Werner Schäfke    11 Biblical Analogues for Early Anglo-Saxon Law   Carole Hough    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210702184791,"sku":"9789004342675","price":115.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/law-and-language-in-the-middle-ages-9789004342675","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}