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Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000

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Legal formularies are books of model legal documents compiled by early medieval scribes for their own use and that of their pupils. A major source for the history of early medieval Europe, they document social relations beyond the narrow world of the political elite. Formularies offer much information regarding the lives of ordinary people: sales and gifts of land, divorces, adoptions, and disputes over labour as well as theft, rape or murder. Until now, the use of formularies as a historical source has been hampered by ...

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Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000 2011, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107402836

Trade paperback

Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521514996

Hardcover