Legal Procedure and Practice in Medieval Denmark

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20476-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 1600 mm x 2400 mm, Gewicht: 957 g

Reihe: Medieval Law and Its Practice

This book offers a comprehensive examination of how the Fourth Lateran Council’s prohibition against trial by ordeal was implemented in Danish secular law and how it required both a fundamental restructuring of legal procedure and an entirely different approach to jurisprudence in practice. It offers a broader understanding of how ideology could penetrate and change jurisprudence firstly by changing the norms, secondly by presupposing new kind of legal institutions. Rather than focusing on pure dogmatics, this investigation will focus on uncovering the ideological character of procedure with regard to how those learned in law and those holding political power thought that jurisprudence needed to be constructed in order to ensure that justice was done in medieval Denmark.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in legal history, Medieval history, and the history of Canon Law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andersen, Per

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Nordeuropa (Skandinavien)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Per Andersen, Ph.D. (2005) in Law, Aarhus University, is Associate Professor of Law at Aarhus University. He has, among different areas, published extensively on the legal history of Medieval Denmark.