Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350-c.1650

ISBN-13: 9780367206796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str.

Jackson W. Armstrong; Edda Frankot

Opis

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.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION: Investigating cultures of law in urban northern Europe  PART I: Telling tales  1. Telling tales: maritime law in Aberdeen in the early sixteenth century  PART II: Communication of law  2. Common books in Aberdeen, c. 1398–c. 1511  3. The language of medieval legal record as a complex multilingual code  4. The vernacularisation of the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398–1511)  PART III: Jurisdiction and conflict  5. Urban law in Norwegian market towns: legal culture in a long fourteenth century  6. The burgh and the forest: burgesses and officers in fifteenth-century Scotland  7. Pax urbana. The use of law for the achievement of political goals  8. Recalcitrant brides and grooms. jurisdiction, marriage, and conflicts with parents in fifteenth-century Ghent PART IV: Law in practice, in and out of court  9. Legal business outside the courts: private and public houses as spaces of law in the fifteenth century  10. Conflicts about property: ships and inheritances in Danzig and in the Hanse area (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries)  11. ‘Malice’ and motivation for hostility in the burgh courts of late medieval Aberdeen  PART V: Men of law in Scotland  12. Bells, clocks and the beginnings of ‘lawyer time’ in late medieval Scotland  13. Andrew Alanson: man of law in the Aberdeen Council Register, c. 1440–c. 1475?  14. Notaries and advocates in early modern Aberdeen