The Burgundian Code

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812201789

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The Burgundian Code by Anonim Pdf

"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."—from the Foreword, by Edward Peters From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a developed and a tribal society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200508

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The Laws of the Salian Franks by Anonim Pdf

Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called the Salic law) at approximately the same time that the Visigoths and Burgundians produced theirs, but the Frankish code is the least Romanized and most Germanic of the three. Unlike Roman law, this code does not emphasize marriage and the family, inheritance, gifts, and contracts; rather, Lex Salica is largely devoted to establishing fixed monetary or other penalties for a wide variety of damaging acts such as "killing women and children," "striking a man on the head so that the brain shows," or "skinning a dead horse without the consent of its owner." An important resource for students and scholars of medieval and legal history, made available once again in Katherine Fischer Drew's expert translation, the code contains much information on Frankish judicial procedure. Drew has here rendered into readable English the Pactus Legis Salicae, generally believed to have been issued by the Frankish King Clovis in the early sixth century and modified by his sons and grandson, Childbert I, Chlotar I, and Chilperic I. In addition, she provides a translation of the Lex Salica Karolina, the code as corrected and reissued some three centuries later by Charlemagne.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200850

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The Lombard Laws by Anonim Pdf

Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries. The documents afford unparalleled insight into the structure and values of Germanic society.

Author : Visigoths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Law, Visigothic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044038754685

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The Visigothic Code by Visigoths Pdf

Author : Robert Stein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198757108

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Magnanimous Dukes and Rising States by Robert Stein Pdf

This work tells the story of the formation of a new state in north-western Europe and the rise of the Burgundian house in the fifteenth century, and how a power-hungry dynasty was able to reach a new equilibrium with the elites. The outcome had the lasting effect of laying the foundation for the modern states of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004375765

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Law and Language in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how the language of law legitimates power.

Author : Floyd Seyward Lear
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292759107

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Treason in Roman and Germanic Law by Floyd Seyward Lear Pdf

"Treason" is a word with many connotations, a word applied to a host of varied offenses throughout the history of humanity. These essays by Floyd Seyward Lear analyze the development of the political theory of treason from its beginning in Roman Law to its transformation in the Germanic custom of the early Middle Ages. The author has presented treason as a political idea, possessing historical continuity, though varying from age to age as it follows the evolution of political authority itself. These studies trace the shifting emphasis in crimes against the state from acts directed against a central absolutist authority to acts involving the personal relationship of a pledged troth and individual fealty. This is a shift from the concept of majesty in Roman law to the concept of fidelity in Germanic law with the corollary shift from allegiance as an act of deference to allegiance as a token of mutual fidelity. These ideas are examined chronologically across an interval extending from archaic Roman law to incipiently feudal forms, from which modern theories of treason, allegiance, and sovereignty derive. Contemporary concepts in these political areas can hardly be understood apart from their historical origins. Broadly considered, this work is intended as a contribution to intellectual history. Further, this collection represents the synthesis of material widely scattered in the primary sources and relevant secondary works. The two concluding bibliographical essays are intended as a general survey of the literature relevant to these studies in Roman and Germanic public law. Descriptive and interpretive works which deal with treason and its allied aspects of political and legal theory are not numerous in the English language.

Author : Simon Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190695620

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The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities by Simon Stern Pdf

How does materiality matter to legal scholarship? What can affect studies offer to legal scholars? What are the connections among visual studies, art history, and the knowledge and experience of law? What can the disciplines of book history, digital humanities, performance studies, disability studies, and post-colonial studies contribute to contemporary and historical understandings of law? These are only some of the important questions addressed in this wide-ranging collection of law and humanities scholarship. Collecting 45 new essays by leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities showcases the work of law and humanities across disciplines, addressing methods, concepts and themes, genres, and areas of the law. The essays explore under-researched domains such as comics, videos, police files, form contracts, and paratexts, and shed new light on traditional topics, such as free speech, intellectual property, international law, indigenous peoples, immigration, evidence, and human rights. The Handbook provides an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of law and humanistic inquiry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004466128

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Wergild, Compensation and Penance by Anonim Pdf

This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person’s status, to prevent and end conflicts, and to negotiate between an individual and the agents of statehood. This collection of interlocking essays by historians, philologists and jurists represents a major contribution to the study of law and society in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages. Contributors are Lukas Bothe, Warren Brown, Stefan Esders, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Paul Hyams, Tom Lambert, Ralph W. Mathisen, Rob Meens, Han Nijdam, Lisi Oliver, Harald Siems, Karl Ubl, and Helle Vogt. See inside the book.

Author : Simon Esmonde Cleary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196499

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The Roman West, AD 200-500 by Simon Esmonde Cleary Pdf

This book focuses on the archaeological evidence, allowing fresh perspectives and new approaches to the fate of the Roman West.

Author : Adrian Armstrong,Elsa Strietman
Publisher : Legenda
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1781885508

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The Multilingual Muse by Adrian Armstrong,Elsa Strietman Pdf

In the late Middle Ages, the Low Countries - ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy and their Hapsburg successors - boasted a dynamic literary culture in both French and Dutch. The Multilingual Muse brings together an unprecedented community of scholars, both historians and literary specialists, to chart these interactions.

Author : Justinian I (Emperor of the East)
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0801494001

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Justinian's Institutes by Justinian I (Emperor of the East) Pdf

Author : Friedrich Carl von Savigny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Civil law
ISBN : BL:A0020280181

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The History of the Roman Law During the Middle Ages ... by Friedrich Carl von Savigny Pdf

Author : Oliver J. Thatcher,Edgar Holmes McNeal
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664635907

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A Source Book for Mediæval History by Oliver J. Thatcher,Edgar Holmes McNeal Pdf

A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.

Author : Walter Pohl,Clemens Gantner,Cinzia Grifoni,Marianne Pollheimer-Mohaupt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110597561

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Transformations of Romanness by Walter Pohl,Clemens Gantner,Cinzia Grifoni,Marianne Pollheimer-Mohaupt Pdf

Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under ‘barbarian’ rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as ‘ethnic’ in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.