Law and language in the Middle Ages /
Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and c...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Series: | Medieval law and its practice ;
25 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1 Translation and Interpretation of Law; Chapter 1 Why Laws were Translated in Medieval England: Access, Authority, and Authenticity; Chapter 2 Translating Justinian: Transmitting and Transforming Roman Law in the Middle Ages; Chapter 3 Leges Iutorum: The Medieval Latin Translation of the Law of Jutland; Chapter 4 The Languages and Registers of Law in Medieval Ireland and Wales; Part 2 The Languages of Legal Practice and Documentary Culture
- Chapter 5 Latin and the Vernacular in Medieval Legal Documents: The Case of DenmarkChapter 6 Between the Language of Law and the Language of Justice: The Use of Formulas in Portuguese Dispute Texts (Tenth and Eleventh Centuries); Chapter 7 The Dangers of Using Latin Texts for the Study of Customary Law: The Example of Flemish Feudal Law during the High Middle Ages; Chapter 8 Sources of Legal Language: The Development of Warranty Clauses in Western France, ca. 1030-ca. 1240; Part 3 Methodology, Interaction, and Language
- Chapter 9 Law and Language in the Leges Barbarorum: A Database Project on the Vernacular Vocabulary in Medieval ManuscriptsChapter 10 'And Since We are No Lawyers, We Will Void the Lawsuit with Battle Axes'! Voiding a Lawsuit in Old Icelandic Procedural Law; Chapter 11 Biblical Analogues for Early Anglo-Saxon Law; Index