The Laws of Medieval Scotland: Legal Compilations from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

TY - BOOK

T1 - The Laws of Medieval Scotland

T2 - Legal Compilations from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

AU - Taylor, Alice

N1 - Edited and translated, with a catalogue, commentary, and introduction by Alice Taylor. An output of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain)–funded project, ‘The Community of the Realm in Scotland, 1249-1424: history, law and charters in a recreated kingdom' " (publisher).

PY - 2019/11/30

Y1 - 2019/11/30

N2 - Brings together collections of Scotland’s ‘auld laws’ in an important new edition featuring both the original Latin texts and translations of them.Also describes and comments on each of the twenty-one manuscripts of the ‘auld laws’ held in archives ranging from Scotland to Madrid in a comprehensive catalogue. Each codex’s basic material includes an introduction to the manuscript and its relevance to the edition, languages, date or approximate date, physical description, provenance, a bibliography referencing works related to the manuscript, contents, and notable points.‘This edition…aims to provide authoritative editions of some of the earliest legal compiliations to have survived from Scotland: Leges Scocie, Capitula Assesarum et Statutorum Domini Dauid Regis Scocie, and the so-called “Ayr Miscellany”. These are joined by two other compilations attributed to the kings of the central Middle Ages: the Leges Willelmi Regis, purporting to the the “laws of King William” (1165-1214), and the Statuta Regis Alexandri, the “laws of King Alexander” (Alexander II, 1214-49), as well as chapters which make up the (in context) famous text known as Leges inter Brettos et Scotos.’ (p. 3)

AB - Brings together collections of Scotland’s ‘auld laws’ in an important new edition featuring both the original Latin texts and translations of them.Also describes and comments on each of the twenty-one manuscripts of the ‘auld laws’ held in archives ranging from Scotland to Madrid in a comprehensive catalogue. Each codex’s basic material includes an introduction to the manuscript and its relevance to the edition, languages, date or approximate date, physical description, provenance, a bibliography referencing works related to the manuscript, contents, and notable points.‘This edition…aims to provide authoritative editions of some of the earliest legal compiliations to have survived from Scotland: Leges Scocie, Capitula Assesarum et Statutorum Domini Dauid Regis Scocie, and the so-called “Ayr Miscellany”. These are joined by two other compilations attributed to the kings of the central Middle Ages: the Leges Willelmi Regis, purporting to the the “laws of King William” (1165-1214), and the Statuta Regis Alexandri, the “laws of King Alexander” (Alexander II, 1214-49), as well as chapters which make up the (in context) famous text known as Leges inter Brettos et Scotos.’ (p. 3)

KW - Law

KW - Scotland

KW - Medieval law

KW - Medieval history

KW - History

KW - Manuscripts, Medieval

KW - Legislation

M3 - Book

SN - 9781872517339

VL - 66

BT - The Laws of Medieval Scotland

PB - The Stair Society

CY - Edinburgh

ER -