The Code of Cuenca : Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier / James F. Powers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuenca (Spain)

Contributor:

Powers, James F., editor.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

The Middle Ages Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuenca (Spain)--Charters, grants, privileges.

Cuenca (Spain).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 James Powers provides the first translation into English of this notable historical document.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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Poem and Prologue

I. Concession of the Code and Outline of Its Privileges

II. Statutes Regarding Property Holdings

III. How Grain Fields Should Be Guarded

IV. Care of the Vineyards

V. Demarcation of Orchards

VI. Aggression with Illegal Weapons

VII. Public Land of the Council

VIII. Concerning Mills

IX. Marriages and Wills

X. The Right of Succession of Children and Parents

XI. No One Should Pay the Pecuniary Penalty of Homicide for a Man Killed During Sports

XII. Insults to Men and Many Other Violent Acts

XIII. No One Should Respond for Counseling

XIV. The Penalties for Murderers: The Challenged

XV. Surety Bondsmen

XVI. The Election of the Iudex and the Alcaldi

XVII. Concerning the Manner in Which Each One Obtains His Rights

XVIII. The Citations

XIX. Bondsmen

XX. Witnesses and Accusers

XXI. Testimony of Responsible Intermediaries or of Substitute AIcaldi

XXII. Fighters of Judicial Combat

XXIII. Debtors Who Flee from the City

XXIV. Those Who Appeal to the Court of the Alcaldi on Friday

XXV. The Manner of Pleading and the Witnesses

XXVI. The Festival Days on Which No One Should Be Allowed to Take Sureties or Cite to Judgment

XXVII. Those Who Appeal to the King

XXVIII. The Collectors of Money for the Council

XXIX. Cases Between Christians and Jews

XXX. The Government of the Military Expedition

XXXI. The Emergency Military Muster

XXXII. The Code of Purchase, of Sale, and of Collateral of Real Estate

XXXIII. The Code of Pledging and of Sales

XXXIV. Dogs

XXXV. The Code of the Hunters

XXXVI. The Code of Hired Workers

XXXVII. The Code of the Herders

XXXVIII. The Loyalty of All Wage Earners

XXXIX. The Code of the Guards Who Watch the Livestock

XL. Those Who Find Something Should Proclaim It, and the Corroborators

XLI. The Code of Guests [and Other Matters]

XLII. Craftsmen

XLIII. The Equalization of the Parishes

Notes

Glossary

Select Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781512806762

1512806765

OCLC:

979836929