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The Västgöta Laws

The Västgöta Laws

Lindkvist, Thomas

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Medieval Translations

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral LawScandinavian History

ISBN10: 1032004886
ISBN13: 9781032004884
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 19 2021
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Västgöta Laws contains the translation of the oldest of the Swedish provincial law codes and other texts of great relevance to the legal history.

The first version, the Older Västgöta Law, is from the first half of the thirteenth century and the earliest example of an indigenous vernacular literacy with the Latin script from Sweden. A second and highly revised version of the law is preserved in a manuscript from the middle of the fourteenth century. This volume also contains a translation of the annotations and proposals made during the complicated negotiations between representatives of the church, the kingdom, and the community of the province. Together, the two versions of the law and the annotations offer a unique possibility to understand the making and transformation of a medieval law. The importance of the regional leaders, the lawmen, is evident from the earliest example of history writing in Sweden, illustrating the legal and political history of Västergötland.

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