Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht

457 Pages·2023·8.343 MB·English

by  Han Nijdam, Jan Hallebeek, Hylkje de Jong

FrisianLandLaw
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Medieval Law and Its Practice
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Frisian Land Law
A Critical Edition andTranslation
of the Freeska Landriucht
Editedby
HanNijdam
JanHallebeek
HylkjedeJong
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Contents
ListofMaps vii
Introduction
PrefacetotheEditionandTranslationoftheOldFrisianMainText 3
HanNijdam
1 MedievalFrisia 3
2 AChronologicalOverviewoftheClassicalOldFrisianLawTexts 9
3 FamilyandInheritance 17
4 TheFarmorEstate 19
5 TheChurch 20
6 LegalProcedureinClassicalOldFrisianLaw 22
7 TheBook 31
8 AShortIntroductiontotheIndividualTexts 43
9 PrinciplesUnderlyingtheEditionandTranslation 59
PrefacetotheEditionandTranslationoftheGloss 62
JanHallebeekandHylkjedeJong
1 Introduction:Glosses 62
2 LearnedLaw:CanonLawandRomanLaw 62
3 TheGlosstotheFrisianLandLaw 63
4 Allegations 65
5 ReferencestoScholarlyLiterature 67
6 RelationoftheGlosstotheMainTextoftheFrisianLandLaw 71
7 AuthorandDateoftheGloss 73
8 PrinciplesUnderlyingtheEditionandTranslation 76
Bibliography 78
TextandTranslation
i Prologue 88
ii WhatIsLaw? 96
iii TheOlderSkeltaLaw 116
iv OftheTwoKingsCharlesandRadbod 170
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vi contents
v TheStatutesofMagnus 174
vi TheSeventeenStatutes 182
vii ProloguetotheSeventeenStatutesandTwenty-FourLandLaws 206
viii TheTwenty-FourLandLaws 208
ix TheEightProvisions 244
x Exceptionstothe17thStatute 254
xi TheSynodicalLawofCentralFrisia 258
xii TheYoungerSkeltaLaw 288
xiii TheStatutesoftheFiveDistricts 318
xiv TheCalculatedTariffs 330
xv CurrencyConversionandWergilds 378
xvi TheBookofEmperorRudolf 382
xvii MarketLaw 418
xviii UnmendableCrimes 424
xix OnForcefulRobberies 426
xx TheStatutesofOpstalsbam 430
xxi ATreatiseontheSevenSealands 438
GlossaryofUntranslatedOldFrisianTerms 443
IndexofAllegationsintheGlosses 444
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Maps
1 EarlymedievalFrisiaandthesurroundingNorthSeaarea.Source:
Versloot-Kartografy 4
2 Thedistricts(pagi)ofearlymedievalFrisia.Source:DeLangenandMol
(2020) 6
3 TheFrisianregionsthatwerepartoftheFrisianFreedom.Source:
Versloot-Kartografy 8
4 ThedistrictsinlatemedievalCentralFrisia.Source:Mol(2017) 23
5 Districtsin13thcenturyCentralFrisia.Source:Versloot-Kartografy 54
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FreeskaLandriucht(c.1484–1486),p.50(seepp.174–176ofthisedition),showingapartof
textv,TheStatutesofMagnus,withamarginalhandwrittenglossbythefirstowner,Hemma
Oddazin(seep.36–37oftheIntroduction).WithkindpermissionofTresoar,Leeuwarden.
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Introduction
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