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English of this notable historical document.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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