Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Korpiola, Mia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
• Subjects: Law-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Civilization-History.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Social history.; Legal History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Cultural History.; History of Medieval Europe.; Social History.

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...