The function of kinship in medieval Nordic legislation /
In the Nordic medieval laws a new definition of kinship - a canonical one - was introduced, based on the Church's incest prohibitions and the requirement to love your kin. It influences the rules for property transfer, inheritance, wergeld and marriage.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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Colección: | Medieval law and its practice ;
v. 9. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Kings of Denmark
- Kings of Norway
- Kings of Sweden
- Introduction
- Kinship as strategy
- The legal sources
- The Scandinavian societies at the time of the provincial laws
- The emergence of the provincial laws and their dating
- The fathers of the laws
- The peace ideology
- The legislator and the law
- The application of provincial laws
- The function of kinship in legal disputes
- Collective sanction
- Inheritance law in the provincial laws
- Donations, pious donations, and the right of disposal of property
- The right of Allodium
- Fledføring : elder care
- Marriage
- Conclusion.