Urban privileges ('keuren') in medieval Flanders
Between 1163 and 1240 urban privileges in the county of Flanders often lack the formal characteristics typical of medieval charters. They consist solely of a list of legal articles preceded by a general heading. In Flanders, such formless law texts are traditionally known as 'keuren'. The most famous of these documents is the so-called 'Grote Keure' by which Count Philip of Alsace imposed a uniform criminal law on the major towns in his realm between 1165 and 1175. In this paper, I argue that these formless law texts are dynamic legal documents that could be updated whenever this was necessary... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Schlagwörter: | Histoire du moyen-age occidental / Bruges / Ghent / Medieval Flanders / Philip of Alsace / Urban privileges / Ypres |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26696899 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/339130 |