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Vernacular Law - Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France (Hardcover)
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Vernacular Law - Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Legal History
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Custom was fundamental to medieval legal practice. Whether in a
property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused
would go to lay court where cases were resolved according to
custom. What custom meant, however, went through a radical shift in
the medieval period. Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries,
custom went from being a largely oral and performed practice to one
that was also conceptualized in writing. Based on French lawbooks
known as coutumiers, Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the repercussions
this transformation - in the form of custom from unwritten to
written and in the language of law from elite Latin to common
vernacular - had on the cultural world of law. Vernacular Law
offers a new understanding of the formation of a new field of
knowledge: authors combined ideas, experience and critical thought
to write lawbooks that made disparate customs into the field known
as customary law.
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