Legal procedure and practice in medieval Denmark /

Legal procedure and practice in medieval Denmark /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Andersen, Per, 1969-
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 452 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Medieval law and its practice ; v. 11 Medieval law and its practice ; v. 11.
Subject:	Procedure (Law) -- Denmark -- History -- To 1500. Procedure (Law) -- Denmark -- History -- 16th century. Procedure (Law) Denmark. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11258906

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Other authors / contributors:	Pedersen, Frederik. Pedersen, Sarah (Professor of communication and media)
ISBN:	9789004206588 9004206582 1283161656 9781283161657 9789004204768 9004204768 9786613161659 6613161659
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Andersen, Per, 1969- Legal procedure and practice in medieval Denmark. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004204768
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004204768.i-452

Table of Contents:

Medieval Denmark
The tradition-and the new paradigm
Learned law and secular legislation
The Danish provincial laws
The institutions of legal administration
Legal procedure in the provincial laws
Learned tendencies and practical considerations
Practice and regulation at the Herredsting
Landstinget-between the people and the king
Birkeret, ting and local procedure
The borough-continuity and consequence
The royal court of law-the highest court.