The scabini in historiographical perspective
Alice Hicklin
Abstract The introduction of the scabini , men who served as judgement finders, has long been connected to judicial reform enacted by Charlemagne. By thirteenth century, term had become synonymous with legal culture and courts from Norway Hungary beyond. This article will trace historiographical debates over their provenance, under Charlemagne, why how this change was enacted, duties impact on terminology writing documentary texts. touches keystones changing perspectives Carolingians: nineteenth‐century views a ‘Germanic’ past that privileged collective twentieth‐century emphasis written word mode governance relationship between Charlemagne aristocracy, recent attention function capitularies in tenth‐century western Europe. It explore alleged disappearance development is scholarship nothing less significant than concerning feudal revolution, before considering areas for future study.
History Compass|Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin)