Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-51471-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 802 g

Reihe: Medieval Law and Its Practice

Around 1485, the age-old compilation of Old Frisian customary law, partly dating back to the 11th century, was put into print. Latin glosses were included in the text with references to Canon and Roman law. This gloss tradition had come into being during the 13th and 14th centuries. This incunable came to be known as Freeska Landriucht or Frisian Land Law. This book presents its first edition with an English translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nijdam, Han

Hallebeek, Jan

de Jong, Hylkje

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps

Introduction

Preface to the Edition and Translation of the Old Frisian Main Text

Han Nijdam

1 Medieval Frisia

2 A Chronological Overview of the Classical Old Frisian Law Texts

3 Family and Inheritance

4 The Farm or Estate

5 The Church

6 Legal Procedure in Classical Old Frisian Law

7 The Book

8 A Short Introduction to the Individual Texts

9 Principles Underlying the Edition and Translation

Preface to the Edition and Translation of the Gloss

Jan Hallebeek and Hylkje de Jong

1 Introduction: Glosses

2 Learned Law: Canon Law and Roman Law

3 The Gloss to the Frisian Land Law

4 Allegations

5 References to Scholarly Literature

6 Relation of the Gloss to the Main Text of the Frisian Land Law

7 Author and Date of the Gloss

8 Principles Underlying the Edition and Translation

Bibliography

Text and Translation

I: Prologue

II: What Is Law?

III: The Older Skelta Law

IV: Of the Two Kings Charles and Radbod

V: The Statutes of Magnus

VI: The Seventeen Statutes

VII: Prologue to the Seventeen Statutes and Twenty-Four Land Laws

VIII: The Twenty-Four Land Laws

IX: The Eight Provisions

X: Exceptions to the 17th Statute

XI: The Synodical Law of Central Frisia

XII: The Younger Skelta Law

XIII: The Statutes of the Five Districts

XIV: The Calculated Tariffs

XV: Currency Conversion and Wergilds

XVI: The Book of Emperor Rudolf

XVII: Market Law

XVIII: Unmendable Crimes

XIX: On Forceful Robberies

XX: The Statutes of Opstalsbam

XXI: A Treatise on the Seven Sealands

Glossary of Untranslated Old Frisian Terms

Index of Allegations in the Glosses