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The use of law for the achievement of political goalsĬhapter 8: Recalcitrant brides and grooms: jurisdiction, marriage and conflicts with parents in fifteenth-century GhentĬhanelle Delameillieure and Jelle Haemers

1511Ĭhapter 3: The language of medieval legal record as a complex multilingual codeĬhapter 4: The vernacularisation of the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398–1511)Ĭhapter 5: Urban law in Norwegian market towns: legal culture in a long fourteenth centuryĬhapter 6: The burgh and the forest: burgesses and officers in fifteenth-century ScotlandĬhapter 7: Pax urbana. Investigating cultures of law in urban northern EuropeĬhapter 1: Telling tales: maritime law in Aberdeen in the early sixteenth centuryĬhapter 2: Common books in Aberdeen, c. By examining how different aspects of legal culture came to be recorded in writing, the contributors reveal how that writing itself then became part of a culture of law.Ĭultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650 combines the historical study of law, towns, language and politics in a way that will be accessible and compelling for advanced level undergraduates and postgraduate to postdoctoral researchers and academics in medieval and early modern, urban, legal, political and linguistic history. This volume considers what the expectations of people at different status levels were for the use of the law, what perceptions of justice and authority existed among different groups, and what their knowledge was of law and legal procedure. The contributions are concerned with understanding late medieval and early modern legal experts as well as the users of courts and legal services, the languages and records of law, and legal activities occurring inside and outside of official legal fora. In these essays, the contributors seek to understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by focusing specifically on the urban experience and, to a great extent, on urban records.

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c.