Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies

This book analyses the legal literacy, knowledge and skills of people in premodern and modernizing Europe. It examines how laymen belonging both to the common people and the elite acquired legal knowledge and skills, how they used these in advocacy and legal writing and how legal literacy became an...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Korpiola, Mia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2019.
Σειρά:World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction; Mia Korpiola
  • Part One: Legal Literates and Their Paths to Legal Literacy
  • Legal Education in Late Medieval England: How did Provincial Scriveners Learn their Law?; Kitrina Bevan
  • The Imperial Chamber Court as an Educational and Training Institution; Anette Baumann
  • Legal Learning of Various Kinds: Swedish Court of Appeal Judges in the Seventeenth Century; Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
  • The Agency and Practical Learning of a Lay Advocate in Seventeenth-Century Helsinki: The Case of Gabriel Abrahamsson; Petteri Impola
  • Ideal Types and Odd Men Out: Legal Literacy and Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Finland; Anna Kuismin
  • Part Two: (Popular) Legal Literature as a Means to Legal Literacy
  • Legal Literates in Eighteenth-Century Swedish Towns: Evidence of Book Ownership in Estate Inventories (Helsinki, Oulu, Porvoo and Kokkola); Mia Korpiola
  • Popular Legal Manuals as Sources and Mechanisms of Acquiring Legal Literacy; Annamaria Monti
  • Acquiring Legal Literacy by Reading: Popular Legal Literature in Nineteenth Century France; Laetitia Guerlain and Nader Hakim
  • Index.