1st Edition
Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650
INTRODUCTION
Investigating cultures of law in urban northern Europe
Jackson W. Armstrong and Edda Frankot
PART I: TELLING TALES
Chapter 1: Telling tales: maritime law in Aberdeen in the early sixteenth century
J.D. Ford
PART II: COMMUNICATION OF LAW
Chapter 2: Common books in Aberdeen, c. 1398–c. 1511
William Hepburn and Graeme Small
Chapter 3: The language of medieval legal record as a complex multilingual code
Joanna Kopaczyk
Chapter 4: The vernacularisation of the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398–1511)
Anna D. Havinga
PART III: JURISDICTION AND CONFLICT
Chapter 5: Urban law in Norwegian market towns: legal culture in a long fourteenth century
Miriam Tveit
Chapter 6: The burgh and the forest: burgesses and officers in fifteenth-century Scotland
Michael H. Brown
Chapter 7: Pax urbana. The use of law for the achievement of political goals
Jörg Rogge
Chapter 8: Recalcitrant brides and grooms: jurisdiction, marriage and conflicts with parents in fifteenth-century Ghent
Chanelle Delameillieure and Jelle Haemers
PART IV: LAW IN PRACTICE, IN AND OUT OF COURT
Chapter 9: Legal business outside the courts: private and public houses as spaces of law in the fifteenth century
Edda Frankot
Chapter 10: Conflicts about property: ships and inheritances in Danzig and in the Hanse area (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries)
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
Chapter 11: ‘Malice’ and motivation for hostility in the burgh courts of late medieval Aberdeen
Jackson W. Armstrong
PART V: MEN OF LAW IN SCOTLAND
Chapter 12: Bells, clocks and the beginnings of ‘lawyer time’ in late medieval Scotland
David Ditchburn
Chapter 13: Andrew Alanson: man of law in the Aberdeen Council Register, c. 1440–c. 1475?
Andrew R.C. Simpson
Chapter 14: Notaries and advocates in early modern Aberdeen
Adelyn L.M. Wilson
Biography
Jackson W. Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches (2020).
Edda Frankot is Associate Professor in History at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. She specialises in late medieval urban, maritime and legal history. She is the author of ‘Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen’. Medieval Maritime Law and its Practice in Urban Northern Europe (2012).
John Cairns, The Edinburgh Legal History Blog, on Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe - https://www.elhblog.law.ed.ac.uk/2020/11/29/new-innovative-legal-histories-armstrong-frankot-laske/
"This work is a testament to the value of these digital records and the work behind transcribing them. Similarly, it is itself evidence of how a diverse range of voices, accounts, and approaches can all be unified by reference to one particular source. The work not only seeks to understand a historical legal culture but also represents something of a new scholarly culture that highlights the individual and the particular in legal history." Jasmin Hepburn (2021) Comparative Legal History, 9:2, 247-250, DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2021.1997381.
