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Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Utrecht, York and Paris
By Frans Camphuijsen
Copyright 2022
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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Late medieval societies witnessed the emergence of a particular form of socio-legal practice and logic, focused on the law court and its legal process. In a context of legal pluralism, courts tried to carve out their own position by influencing people’s conception of what justice was and how one was supposed to achieve it. These “scripts of justice” took shape through a range of media, including... Read more
List of figures, maps, plans and timelines,Acknowledgements,Introduction, 1. Profiles: Three late medieval law courts, 2. Legal space, 3. The rituality of court practice, 4. Legal text and social context, 5. Court and society: the production and consumption of justice,General conclusion,Appendix 1: Utrecht,Appendix 2: York,Appendix 3: Paris, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Frans Camphuijsen is a socio-cultural historian of late medieval cities and their institutions. Working comparatively with French, English and Dutch sources, his interests range from law courts to histories of performance and materiality. He obtained his PhD in 2017 from the University of Amsterdam, where he currently teaches Medieval History.
Met Scripting justice levert Camphuijsen ontegensprekelijk een waardevolle bijdrage aan de bestaande historiografie rond de institutionalisering van rechtbanken in het laatmiddeleeuwse Europa., -- Falco Van der Schueren, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Vol.135, Issue 2/3
