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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. In these essays, the contributors seek to
understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by
focusing specifically on the urban experience and, to a great
extent, on urban records. The contributions are concerned with
understanding late medieval and early modern legal experts as well
as the users of courts and legal services, the languages and
records of law, and legal activities occurring inside and outside
of official legal fora. This volume considers what the expectations
of people at different status levels were for the use of the law,
what perceptions of justice and authority existed among different
groups, and what their knowledge was of law and legal procedure. By
examining how different aspects of legal culture came to be
recorded in writing, the contributors reveal how that writing
itself then became part of a culture of law. Cultures of Law in
Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350-c.1650
combines the historical study of law, towns, language and politics
in a way that will be accessible and compelling for advanced level
undergraduates and postgraduate to postdoctoral researchers and
academics in medieval and early modern, urban, legal, political and
linguistic history.
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. In these essays, the contributors seek to
understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by
focusing specifically on the urban experience and, to a great
extent, on urban records. The contributions are concerned with
understanding late medieval and early modern legal experts as well
as the users of courts and legal services, the languages and
records of law, and legal activities occurring inside and outside
of official legal fora. This volume considers what the expectations
of people at different status levels were for the use of the law,
what perceptions of justice and authority existed among different
groups, and what their knowledge was of law and legal procedure. By
examining how different aspects of legal culture came to be
recorded in writing, the contributors reveal how that writing
itself then became part of a culture of law. Cultures of Law in
Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350-c.1650
combines the historical study of law, towns, language and politics
in a way that will be accessible and compelling for advanced level
undergraduates and postgraduate to postdoctoral researchers and
academics in medieval and early modern, urban, legal, political and
linguistic history.
This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the
practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the
Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts
in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a
means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured
in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past
have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately
influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is
'feudalism', whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R.
Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal article on the topic.
The volume's contributors offer a series of case studies of other
concepts - 'colony', 'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic',
'networks' and 'politics' - that have been influential,
particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later
Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between
historical ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for
fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their dialogue.
The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had
a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the
medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of
the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet, in the
fifteenth century, open war was an infrequent occurrence in a
region which is much better understood by historians of
fourteenth-century Anglo-Scottish conflict, or of Tudor responses
to the so-called 'border reivers'. This first book-length study of
England's far north in the fifteenth century addresses conflict,
kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance in this dynamic
region. It traces the norms and behaviours by which local society
sought to manage conflict, arguing that common law and march law
were only parts of a mixed framework which included aspects of
'feud' as it is understood in a wider European context. Addressing
the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland
together, Jackson W. Armstrong transcends an east-west division in
the region's historiography and challenges the prevailing
understanding of conflict in late medieval England, setting the
region within a wider comparative framework.
The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had
a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the
medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of
the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet, in the
fifteenth century, open war was an infrequent occurrence in a
region which is much better understood by historians of
fourteenth-century Anglo-Scottish conflict, or of Tudor responses
to the so-called 'border reivers'. This first book-length study of
England's far north in the fifteenth century addresses conflict,
kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance in this dynamic
region. It traces the norms and behaviours by which local society
sought to manage conflict, arguing that common law and march law
were only parts of a mixed framework which included aspects of
'feud' as it is understood in a wider European context. Addressing
the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland
together, Jackson W. Armstrong transcends an east-west division in
the region's historiography and challenges the prevailing
understanding of conflict in late medieval England, setting the
region within a wider comparative framework.
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