Legal procedure and practice in medieval Denmark / by Per Andersen ; translated by Frederik and Sarah Pedersen.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of how the Fourth Lateran Councils 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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Medieval law and its practice ;
v. 11. |
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| Summary: | This book offers a comprehensive examination of how the Fourth Lateran Councils 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 re. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 452 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004206588 9004206582 1283161656 9781283161657 9786613161659 6613161659 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |