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The Corpus iuris civilis in the Middle Ages : manuscripts and transmission from the sixth century to the juristic revival
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ISBN: 9789004154995 900415499X 9786611457945 1281457949 9047411552 9789047411550 9781281457943 6611457941 Year: 2007 Volume: 147 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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Using documents, glosses, legal commentaries, and the first paleographical study of manuscripts since the mid-nineteenth century, the authors of this book trace the circulation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis from late antiquity until the early twelfth century. They demonstrate that only the Novels found any significant readership in the early Middle Ages, and that Justinian’s Institutes, Code, and Digest emerged from obscurity only in the mid-eleventh century, when they were taken up by northern-Italian specialists in Lombard law. Separate chapters then consider the evidence for the textual history and reception of the Institutes, Code, and Digest. Included in the volume are plates of all of the most important early manuscripts of Justinian’s works, most of which have never been published before.


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Legal practice and the written word in the early middle ages : Frankish formulae, c. 500-1000
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ISBN: 9780521514996 0521514991 9780511581359 9781107402836 9780511540714 051154071X 0511581351 1107190371 128215561X 9786612155611 051154037X 0511538936 0511538103 0511539770 1107402832 9781107190375 6612155612 9780511538933 9780511538100 9780511539770 Year: 2009 Volume: 75 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Legal formularies are books of model legal documents compiled by early medieval scribes for their own use and that of their pupils. A major source for the history of early medieval Europe, they document social relations beyond the narrow world of the political elite. Formularies offer much information regarding the lives of ordinary people: sales and gifts of land, divorces, adoptions, and disputes over labour as well as theft, rape or murder. Until now, the use of formularies as a historical source has been hampered by severe methodological problems, in particular through the difficulty of establishing a precise chronological or geographical context for them. By examining Frankish legal formularies from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods, this book provides an invaluable, detailed analysis of the problems and possibilities associated with formularies, and will be required reading for scholars of early medieval history.

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