The Code of Cuenca: Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier (Anniversary Collection) - Tapa dura

 
9780812235456: The Code of Cuenca: Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier (Anniversary Collection)
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ISBN 10: 0812235452 ISBN 13: 9780812235456
Editorial: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017

Sinopsis

Sometime around 1190, King Alfonso VIII of Castile granted a royal charter to the community of Cuenca, a Castilian frontier town recently recaptured from the Muslims and resettled by Christians. The royal charter was in the form of a law code, or fuero. Fueros, which evolved from short lists of exceptions to standing royal directives into much more extensive commentaries on legal matters, were used as an incentive to Christian settlement on the frontier. Reflecting the complexities of administering a town that still had large Muslim and Jewish populations, the fuero or code of Cuenca was meant to assure the permanence of Christian conquest and settlement. James Powers provides the first translation into English of this notable historical document.
The Code of Cuenca is of great importance to legal historians, particularly as a comparison to contemporary English and other European law texts. Because there is no similar urban compilation anywhere else in twelfth-century Europe that contains significant descriptions of everyday life in a medieval frontier town, the code will serve as a primary source for scholars and students of medieval Iberian and western European political, economic, and social history.

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James F. Powers is Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross. He is author of A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1284, winner of the Best Book Prize, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 1988-90.

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University of Pennsylvania Press
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0812235452
ISBN 13 
9780812235456
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Número de páginas
256
Editor
Powers James F.
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