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A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Love, Jeffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scandinavian languages.
- Law, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (588 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2020.
- Summary:
- This volume is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of medieval Scandinavia. This polyglot dictionary draws on the vast and vibrant range of vernacular legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts - terminology which yields valuable insights into the quotidian realities of crime and retribution; the processes, application and execution of laws; and the cultural and societal concerns underlying the development and promulgation of such laws.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Introduction
- LMNL
- Material
- Headword selection
- Principles for lemmatization
- Entry content
- English>
- Nordic section
- Appendices
- Abbreviations
- Further notes
- Nordic to English
- English to Nordic
- Appendix A: Administrative, judicial and fiscal subdivisions
- Danish laws
- Göta laws
- Svea laws
- Guta lag and Guta saga
- Norwegian laws
- Icelandic laws
- Appendix B: Agriculture and Forestry
- General
- Cultivated land: village, farmstead and farmyard
- Cultivated land: arable land
- Land-division systems
- Non-cultivated land: meadow, pasture
- Common resources and public property
- Appendix C: Borders, boundaries and boundary markers
- Borders between provinces, districts or villages or with the type of border as part of the name
- Boundaries between fields or meadows
- Boundary markers
- Boundaries at sea
- Appendix D1: The Monetary System
- Appendix D2: Weights and Measures
- Appendix E: Kinship
- Appendix F: Calendar of Church Feast and Fast Days.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- ISBN:
- 1-78374-817-6
- OCLC:
- 1161582789
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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