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The Code of Cuenca - Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castillian Frontier (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.) Loot Price: R1,996
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The Code of Cuenca - Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castillian Frontier (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.): James Powers

The Code of Cuenca - Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castillian Frontier (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.)

James Powers

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Sometime around 1190, King Alfonso VII of Castile granted a royal charter to the community of Cuenca, a Castilian frontier town recently recaptured from the Muslims and resettled by Christians. The royal charter was in the form of a law code, or fuero. Fueros, which evolved from short lists of exceptions to standing royal directives into much more extensive commentaries on legal matters, were used as an incentive to Christian settlement on the frontier. Reflecting the complexities of administering a town that still had large Muslim and Jewish populations, the fuero or code of Cuenca was meant to assure the permanence of Christian conquest and settlement. James Powers provides the first translation into English of this notable historical document.

The Code of Cuenca is of great importance to legal historians, particularly as a comparison to contemporary English and other European law texts. Because there is no similar urban compilation anywhere else in twelfth-century Europe that contains significant descriptions of everyday life in a medieval frontier town, the code will serve as a primary source for scholars and students of medieval Iberian and western European political, economic, and social history.

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Imprint: University of PennsylvaniaPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2000
First published: June 2000
Authors: James Powers
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 251
Edition: Reprint 2016 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-3545-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
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LSN: 0-8122-3545-2
Barcode: 9780812235456

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