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Parution : 01/2016
Editeur : Routledge
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The Danish Medieval Laws. The laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland

Édité par Ditlev Tamm, Helle Vogt

Présentation

The Danish medieval laws: the laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland contains translations of the four most important medieval Danish laws written in the vernacular. The main texts are those of the Law of Scania, the two laws of Zealand – Valdemar’s and Erik’s – and the Law of Jutland, all of which date from the early thirteenth century. The Church Law of Scania and three short royal ordinances are also included. These provincial laws were first written down in the first half of the thirteenth century and were in force until 1683, when they were replaced by a national law. The laws, preserved in over 100 separate manuscripts, are the first extended texts in Danish and represent a first attempt to create a Danish legal language.

Sommaire

Abbriviations
Foreword
General Introduction

Part I. Introduction

  • Denmark around 1200
  • The Church
  • The laws
  • The medieval laws in Danish legal history
  • The law texts
  • Translating medieval laws
  • The language of the laws
  • The law in the laws

    • Part II. The provinces and the laws

  • Scania
  • The Scanian laws
  • The Church Law of Scania
  • The Law of Scania
  • The royal ordinances
  • Knud VI’s Ordinance on Homicide 28 December 1200
  • The Ordinance on Compensation
  • The Ordinance on the ordeal of hot iron
  • The province and laws of Zealand
  • Valdemar’s Law of Zealand
  • The Church Law of Zealand
  • The Law of Zealand known as the Law of Valdemar
  • Erik’s Law of Zealand
  • The province of Jutland and Funen and the Law of Jutland
  • The Law of Jutland

    • Terminology
    Glossary
    Old Danish
    English