{"product_id":"law-book-culture-in-the-middle-ages-9789004448346","title":"Law   Book   Culture in the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Law   Book   Culture in the Middle Ages fifteen contributions are brought together, each taking a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures and literate representations thereof. Four broad thematic approaches exploring the manuscript contexts and reception, of law and legal thought are considered: Law-Books, Law \u0026amp; Society, Legal Practice, and Text \u0026amp; 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.  Contributors are Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Hannah Burrows, Sonia Colafrancesco, Jan van Doren, Stefan Drechsler, Daniela Fruscione Pistoresi, Thom Gobbitt, Katherine J. Har, Lucy Hennings, Petar Parvanov, Fangzhe Dimurjan Qiu, Ben Reinhard, Sara Elin Roberts, Francesco Sangriso, and Chiara Simbolotti.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables  Abbreviations  Notes on Contributors    Introduction: Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages   Thom Gobbitt    Part 1 Law-Books    1 Production and Content of the Fourteenth-Century Norwegian Law Manuscript Lundarbók   Stefan Drechsler    2 Wulfstan and the Reordered Polity of Cotton Nero A.i   Ben Reinhard    3 Liutprand’s Prologues in the Edictus Langobardorum   Thom Gobbitt    4 More than Language: Law and Textual Communities in Medieval Frisia   Rolf H. Bremmer Jr    5 Law, Law-Books and Tradition in Early Medieval Ireland   Fangzhe Qiu    Part 2 Law \u0026amp; Society    6 De Divortio et de Resignatione: A Case of Carolingian Legal Precedent?   Jan van Doren    7 Reading the Law in Royal Government: Ius Commune Texts and Administrative Mentalities in Thirteenth-Century England   Lucy Hennings    8 Discussing London and the Regnum Anglorum after the 1204 Loss of Normandy   Katherine J. Har    9 The Inviolable Right: Property and Power in Medieval Scandinavian Laws and Society   Francesco Sangriso    Part 3 Legal Practice    10 Juridicial Dualism in Medieval Southern Italy: Studies on the Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis   Sonia Colafrancesco    11 Mortuary Proxies: Archaeological Contextualization of Medieval Legal Practices   Petar Parvanov    12 Expertise and Experience: Nuancing Terms for Legal Practitioners in the Íslendingasögur   Hannah Burrows    13 Two Lombard Charters and Their Writers   Daniela Fruscione    Part 4 Text \u0026amp; Edition    14 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   Chiara Simbolotti    15 ‘A Rather Laborious and Harassing Occupation’: The Creation of the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales (1841)   Sara Elin Roberts    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210816577879,"sku":"9789004448346","price":156.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/law-book-culture-in-the-middle-ages-9789004448346","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}