Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation

Bruce C. Brasington
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Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation

Bruce C. Brasington
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"The title of this book might lead readers to expect something more modest. While the translations make it of obvious worth to anyone interested in the legal organization of premodern Western Europe, Order in the Court is really a scholarly monograph in its own right. In it, Brasington describes the conditions that gradually made law more a matter of learning than of custom. Throughout this process, Roman law exerted a gravitational pull on litigants and experts, eventually overwhelming the independent legal traditions that had built up in its absence... As much for its careful discussion of the [textual] materials (delivered with a command of a staggering range of scholarly publications) as for the texts themselves, I am grateful for the work that must have gone into the preparation of this important volume, which is sure to benefit both the teaching and the study of legal history. I expect my copy will see much use in the years to come."
Stefan Jurasinski, The Medieval Review (2017)

"Um es gleich vorweg zu nehmen: Ich kenne momentan keine andere derart gelungene kurze Zusammenfassung der Prozessrechtsgeschichte, die zugleich viel Raum für weitere Entdeckungen lässt. Immer wieder gelingen Brasington souveräne Übersichten. Seine Beobachtungen bis in die Details sind überzeugend und die Linien geben dem Leser die allgemeine Orientierung. [...] Man erkennt an diesen Erwägungen, wie informierend und anregend die Darstellung von Brasington selbst für erfahrene Rechtshistoriker ist. Doch auch Unkundige werden hier die beste Einführung in die Geschichte bis zum Hohen Mittelalter finden. Brasington vermittelt eine Quellen- und Literaturkenntnis, die dem Stand der Kanonistik entspricht, und erklärt dabei zugleich, warum das römische Recht so einflussreich sein konnte. Er leistet damit eine neue Grundlage zum Verständnis der Entwicklung des hochmittelalterlichen Prozessrechts, das in einigen Elementen noch bis heute fortwirkt."
Mathias Schmoeckel, ZRG KA 104 (2018)

  • Published date: Mar 24, 2016
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 330
  • Publisher: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004214347
  • Dimensions: 6.102362204" W x 0.984251968" L x 9.251968503" H
Bruce C. Brasington, Ph.D. (1990), UCLA, is Professor of History at West Texas A&M University. He has published monographs and articles on medieval law and co-authored, with Robert Somerville, Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity(Yale, 1998).

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