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The Text of Visigothic Law in Practice
This essay is a case study in the textual transmission of the Visigothic law code or Book of Judgements (Liber Iudiciorum). Rather than relying solely on manuscript copies, I draw on charters as sources for the text, and by tracking the citation of treason law across the corpus of documentation from early medieval Asturias-León and Navarra, I identify ...
Graham Barrett (17153584)
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"The Perfidy of the Jews": Visigothic Law and the Catholic Public Sphere
In this essay, I will analyze the Visigothic law code, the Forum judicum, as revised by King Recceswinth in 654 CE and King Erwig in 681 CE, in order to examine Visigothic society as envisioned by its lawmakers. In particular, I will focus on the role of Jews in this social framework.
Phillips, Jonathan
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La recusatio iudicis suspecti en Derecho Romano y sus vaivenes históricos [PDF]
The recusatio iudicis suspecti constitutes a controversial figure, whose imprecise edges are not always well delimited. This work gets close to its Roman configuration,establishing some of its essential characteristics, which will doubtlessly constitute ...
Ana Alemán Monreal
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Tipologies of usufruct in the visigothic law. Analysis of the legal casuistry
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García Lozano, Luis Miguel
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Roman Law in the regnum Italiae under the Emperor Lothar I (817-855): Epitomes, Manuscripts, and Carolingian Legislation [PDF]
“Roman law” could mean very different things in the Carolingian period, and refers to a great variety of legal texts. This becomes particularly visible from the abbreviated versions of Roman law that were produced and circulated since the sixth century ...
Esders, Stefan
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Carcassonne G 6, preserving a judicial oath from 833, is an exceptional source for the history of the Spanish March and more generally the workings of power in the Carolingian world. The oath, concerning at first glance a very local dispute, links a body of royal charters with the precepts for the hispani issued by Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and ...
Christoph Haack, Thomas Kohl
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THE LOCUS IN THE CONTEXT OF LATE ANTIQUE SPAIN
At a conference some years ago, I briefly examined the relationship between local power and wine production in Visigothic Spain. On that occasion, I mentioned the transformed legal nature of the locus, a topic I now wish to explore further, in the same ...
Adriaan De Man
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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa
Abstract This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty. The non‐application of the ethnic terminology to the consorts, sisters and daughters of kings and princes ...
Robin Whelan
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In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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This article deals with a copy of a visigothic regnal list, which is found in two manuscripts of Pseudo-Isidore: Montecassino, ms. 1 and Paris, BnF, lat. 1557.
William Trouvé
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