Havinga PART III: JURISDICTION AND CONFLICT Chapter 5: Urban law in Norwegian market towns: legal culture in a long fourteenth century - Miriam Tveit Chapter 6: The burgh and the forest: burgesses and officers in fifteenth-century Scotland - Michael H. 1511 - William Hepburn and Graeme Small Chapter 3: The language of medieval legal record as a complex multilingual code - Joanna Kopaczyk Chapter 4: The vernacularisation of the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398–1511) - Anna D. Ford PART II: COMMUNICATION OF LAW Chapter 2: Common books in Aberdeen, c. Armstrong and Edda Frankot PART I: TELLING TALES Chapter 1: Telling tales: maritime law in Aberdeen in the early sixteenth century - J.D.
INTRODUCTION Investigating cultures of law in urban northern Europe - Jackson W. Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650 combines the historical study of law, towns, language and politics in a way that will be accessible and compelling for advanced level undergraduates and postgraduate to postdoctoral researchers and academics in medieval and early modern, urban, legal, political and linguistic history. By examining how different aspects of legal culture came to be recorded in writing, the contributors reveal how that writing itself then became part of a culture of law. This volume considers what the expectations of people at different status levels were for the use of the law, what perceptions of justice and authority existed among different groups, and what their knowledge was of law and legal procedure.
The contributions are concerned with understanding late medieval and early modern legal experts as well as the users of courts and legal services, the languages and records of law, and legal activities occurring inside and outside of official legal fora. In these essays, the contributors seek to understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by focusing specifically on the urban experience and, to a great extent, on urban records. Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c.
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