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The Vastgoeta Laws contains the translation of the oldest of the
Swedish provincial law codes and other texts of great relevance to
the legal history. The first version, the Older Vastgoeta Law, is
from the first half of the thirteenth century and the earliest
example of an indigenous vernacular literacy with the Latin script
from Sweden. A second and highly revised version of the law is
preserved in a manuscript from the middle of the fourteenth
century. This volume also contains a translation of the annotations
and proposals made during the complicated negotiations between
representatives of the church, the kingdom, and the community of
the province. Together, the two versions of the law and the
annotations offer a unique possibility to understand the making and
transformation of a medieval law. The importance of the regional
leaders, the lawmen, is evident from the earliest example of
history writing in Sweden, illustrating the legal and political
history of Vastergoetland. With an Introduction that places the
province of Vastergoetland and its law into its political setting,
this translation is invaluable for all students and scholars of
medieval Swedish legal and political history.
The Vastgoeta Laws contains the translation of the oldest of the
Swedish provincial law codes and other texts of great relevance to
the legal history. The first version, the Older Vastgoeta Law, is
from the first half of the thirteenth century and the earliest
example of an indigenous vernacular literacy with the Latin script
from Sweden. A second and highly revised version of the law is
preserved in a manuscript from the middle of the fourteenth
century. This volume also contains a translation of the annotations
and proposals made during the complicated negotiations between
representatives of the church, the kingdom, and the community of
the province. Together, the two versions of the law and the
annotations offer a unique possibility to understand the making and
transformation of a medieval law. The importance of the regional
leaders, the lawmen, is evident from the earliest example of
history writing in Sweden, illustrating the legal and political
history of Vastergoetland. With an Introduction that places the
province of Vastergoetland and its law into its political setting,
this translation is invaluable for all students and scholars of
medieval Swedish legal and political history.
The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever,
and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal
democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete
realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and
political representation as well as the legal bases for
citizenship. Thus, an understanding of such borders and their
consequences is of utmost importance for promoting the evolution of
democracy. Cultural Borders of Europe provides a wide-ranging
exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of regions
and historical eras, providing essential insights into the state of
European intercultural relations today.
Prior to the high Middle Ages, the Baltic Rim was largely terra
incognita-but by the late Middle Ages, it was home to diverse small
and large communities. But the Baltic Rim was not simply the place
those people lived-it was also an imagined space through which they
defined themselves and their identities. This book traces the
transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on
the self-image of a number of communities: urban and regional,
cultic, missionary, legal, and political. Contributors look at the
ways these communities defined themselves in relationship to other
groups, how they constructed their identities and customs, and what
held them together or tore them apart.
The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever,
and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal
democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete
realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and
political representation as well as the legal bases for
citizenship. Thus, an understanding of such borders and their
consequences is of utmost importance for promoting the evolution of
democracy. Cultural Borders of Europe provides a wide-ranging
exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of regions
and historical eras, providing essential insights into the state of
European intercultural relations today.
This book provides the first global analysis of the relationship
between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation
3000 BC until the modern era 1600 AD. Encompassing the various
networks including the Silk Road, the Indian Ocean trade, Near
Eastern family traders of the Bronze Age, and the Medieval
Hanseatic League, it examines the role of the individual merchant,
the products of trade, the role of the state, and the technical
conditions for land and sea transport that created diverging
systems of trade and in the development of global trade networks.
Trade networks, however, were not durable. The book focuses on the
establishment and decline of great trading network systems, and how
they related to the expansion of civilisation, and to different
forms of social and economic exploitation. Case studies focus on
local conditions as well as global networks until the sixteenth
century when the whole globe was connected by trade.
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