The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales

by Robin Chapman Stacey

Overview

Examines the institution of personal suretyship through the remarkable rich sources extant from medieval Ireland and Wales.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812232165
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	05/29/1994
Series:	The Middle Ages Series
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robin Chapman Stacey is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Editorial Reviews

Concerned with the shift of responsibility for the fulfillment of contracts from the community to the government, drawing on the richest and least studied extant body of early medieval non- Roman legal literature. Explains the nature of the Irish and Welsh lawbooks, the complex legal arrangements and how they fit into the larger social order, how the church and state gradually superseded the traditional practices, and how those practices survive in such forms as co-signing for a loan and bail bonds. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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