Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies
Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies

Author: Mia Korpiola

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 3319968637

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​This book analyses the legal literacy, knowledge and skills of people in premodern and modernizing Europe. It examines how laymen belonging both to the common people and the elite acquired legal knowledge and skills, how they used these in advocacy and legal writing and how legal literacy became an avenue for social mobility. Taking a comparative approach, contributors consider the historical contexts of England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. This book is divided into two main parts. The first part discusses various groups of legal literates (scriveners, court of appeal judges and advocates) and their different paths to legal literacy from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The second part analyses the rise of the ownership and production of legal literature – especially legal books meant for laymen – as means for acquiring a degree of legal literacy from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages
The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages

Author: Stefan G. Holz

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 3110645203

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In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this imbalance by focusing on the materiality and various usages of rolls in late medieval England and France. Researchers from England, France, Germany and Singapore demonstrate in 11 contributions how this approach can increase our understanding of the rolls and their contents, as well as the contexts in which they were produced and used.

Republics at War, 1776-1840
Republics at War, 1776-1840

Author: P. Serna

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137328816

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This collection probes the troubling connections between war and republic during Revolutionary era, 1776-1840. It presents the work of an international team of scholars, some of them in English for the first time.

There are No Slaves in France
There are No Slaves in France

Author: Sue Peabody

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780195158663

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"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancient Regime examines the paradox of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Black slaves who came to France as domestic servants of colonial masters challenged their servitude in courts. On the basis of the Freedom Principle, ̃a judicial maxim granting freedom to any slave who set foot in the kingdom, hundreds of slaves won their freedom.

Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France
Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France

Author: William Beik

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780521367820

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This analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism argues that the relationship between the regional aristocracy and the crown was a key factor in influencing the traditional social system of seventeenth century France.