Law‐books, concomitant texts and ethnically framed legal pluralism on the fringes of post‐Carolingian Europe: northern Italy and Catalonia around 1000
Stefan Esders
Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to ways handling legal material. Incorporating full the Visigothic Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided base for studying interpreting old through comments, glosses etc., addressing users such as lay judges. By looking at Catalonian Liber iudicum popularis north Italian Papiensis their manuscript contexts along with several revealing concomitant texts, article seeks demonstrate also need be understood reflecting transformation brought about by two regions’ former belonging Carolingian empire. A manuscript‐based approach can how local appropriation pre‐Carolingian traditions contributed legitimization post‐Carolingian rule both regions, whose cultures evolved quite differently despite numerous parallels points comparison.
Early Medieval Europe|Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin)