Overview
- Analyses the whole spectrum of legal literacy across Europe from Medieval times to the nineteenth century
- Use sources rarely used in legal history research, such as autobiographical texts, newspapers, and estate inventories
- Takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the subject
Part of the book series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence (WHCCV)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Legal Literates and Their Paths to Legal Literacy
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Front Matter
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(Popular) Legal Literature as a Means to Legal Literacy
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is divided into two main parts. The first part discusses various groups of legal literates (scriveners, court of appeal judges and advocates) and their different paths to legal literacy from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The second part analyses the rise of the ownership and production of legal literature – especially legal books meant for laymen – as means for acquiring a degree of legal literacy from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies
Editors: Mia Korpiola
Series Title: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96863-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96862-9Published: 20 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07265-0Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96863-6Published: 10 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9630
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 264
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Legal History, History of Early Modern Europe, Cultural History, History of Medieval Europe, Social History