Studien zur Geschichte des sächsischen Landrechts in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit.

Kümper, Hiram

doi:10.3790/978-3-428-13093-1

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“…These books did not contain officially promulgated law. They had at the origin, rather been, private -to use an anachronistic term-compilations by individual scholars of the thirteenth century who collected and invented rules on inheritance, civil law, jurisdictional competences, and criminal law (Johanek 1987;Ebel 1990;Kümper 2005 and2009;Dievoet 1986;Petitjean 1975;Sandvik 2005;Wolf 1996;Jacob 2001). Over time, these texts were ever more often used as guidebooks for administrators.…”

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confidence: 99%

Document collections, mobilized regulations, and the making of customary law at the end of the Middle Ages

Teuscher

2010

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Using late medieval examples from Switzerland, this paper argues that the emergence of formally organized archives around 1500 was part of an important shift in how documents could be deployed. However, this shift was not away from an oral and toward a literate culture, as argued in some earlier studies, but rather away from seeing documents as testimony that reminded a community about past authoritative actors, and toward relating the texts of documents to other texts, that is, to contexts. This shift took place largely through the appropriation of methods for using and organizing written material that had been developed in the realms of scholastic theology and liturgy, and applying them to secular lordship and administration. These methods provided new models for organizing collections of parchments and papers into connected archives and gave rise to new forms of text collection such as reorganized versions of law books (Spiegel, Coutumiers) containing new search tools such as tables of contents (capitulationes) and indices (abecedaria). Individual charters and scattered legal norms were also organized into textus-glossae structures in larger and smaller administrative units. In the Swiss case, the contextualization of legal texts was accompanied by an increased attribution of authority to 'custom' in general, because the community-oriented attribution of meaning found in earlier use was lost. Ultimately, recasting individual documents as part of larger textual contexts increased the power of rulers and ushered in an age of lawyers and of archives.

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Section: Law Booksmentioning

confidence: 99%