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.

EU and US Antitrust Arbitration
EU and US Antitrust Arbitration

Author: Gordon Blanke

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789041127600

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This title, covers both American and European antitrust and competition law. It provides an in-depth examination of all relevant aspects across the fields.

Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity
Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity

Author: Wout Jac. van Bekkum

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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The leading theme of this collection of essays and studies is the diversity of aspects of medieval communal identity. While the authors were selected for the very diversity of their interests, their final papers do tend to cohere around some recurrent themes. All of the studies in this volume touch upon one or more of the complex issues that lie at the heart of religious identity in the Middle Ages. They do so through concrete study of the very real practices by which medieval Jews, Christians and Muslims could police the perimeters of their spiritual communities. The authors were especially urged to note instances where religious identity was shaped without reference to dogmas, creeds, or sacred law. In no case are any of these papers satisfied with normative, legal definitions of Jew, Christian, or Muslim in medieval times. Sometimes small and subtle, sometimes explicit, dire, and violent, the techniques that emerge from these studies testify to the diversity of strategies of medieval communal identity over space and their changes over time.

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.