{"product_id":"vernacular-law-writing-and-the-reinvention-of-customary-law-in-medieval-france-paperback-softback-9781009217880","title":"Vernacular Law; Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009217880","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVernacular Law\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWriting and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA new understanding of the transformative effect of vernacular writing on customary law in medieval France.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAda Maria Kuskowski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009217880, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e430 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.696 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Kuskowski presents an instructive view of the practice of early vernacular writing in all of its innovative and unstable freshness, while also offering a striking depiction of medieval legal culture as one of improvised negotiation effected through a bricolage of writing and orality, which transmitted but also invented tradition. The book will be of interest to book historians as well as to its primary audience of legal historians.' Robert O. Steele, Sharp News\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCustom was fundamental to medieval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay court where cases were resolved according to custom. What custom meant, however, went through a radical shift in the medieval period. Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, custom went from being a largely oral and performed practice to one that was also conceptualized in writing. Based on French lawbooks known as coutumiers, Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the repercussions this transformation – in the form of custom from unwritten to written and in the language of law from elite Latin to common vernacular – had on the cultural world of law. Vernacular Law offers a new understanding of the formation of a new field of knowledge: authors combined ideas, experience and critical thought to write lawbooks that made disparate customs into the field known as customary law.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: vernacular writing and the transformation of customary law in Medieval France\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Written Custom and the Formation of Vernacular Law: 1. What is custom? Concept and literary practice\u003cbr\u003e 2. Composing customary law as a vernacular law\u003cbr\u003e 3. Writing a 'ius non scriptum': writtenness, memory and change\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Political and Intellectual Tensions: 4. Uneasy jurisdictions: lay and ecclesiastical law\u003cbr\u003e 5. Roman law, authority and creative citation\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Implications: 6. Custom in lawbooks and records of legal practice\u003cbr\u003e 7. Dynamic text: dialectic, manuscript culture and customary law\u003cbr\u003e 8. Implications of circulating text: crafting a French common law\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: lasting model and professional community\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Legal history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Legal history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Legal%20history%20%5BLAZ%5D%22\"\u003eLAZ\u003c\/a\u003e], Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20history:%20c%20500%20to%20c%201450\/1500%20%5BHBLC%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52472159994136,"sku":"9781009217880","price":23.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009217880i.jpg?v=1785719615","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/vernacular-law-writing-and-the-reinvention-of-customary-law-in-medieval-france-paperback-softback-9781009217880","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}