ENGLISH

John of Ibelin: Le Livre Des Assises

By Peter W. Edbury , Giovanni

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2003
ISBN
9004131795, 9789004131798, 9781423712459
LCC
KML28.3 .J64 2003
Open Library ID
OL3692548M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3462615 bytes)
Series
Medieval Mediterranean
Pages
854\864
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

This is a new critical edition of the legal treatise by John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa and Ascalon (died 1266). John was a leading magnate in the Latin East, and his first-hand experience of the courts meant that he was well-placed to write authoritatively on his subject. His work is in French and describes in detail the procedures of the High Court of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and the law as administered there. The treatise has long been recognized as being of fundamental importance for the legal, institutional and social history of the Latin settlements in the Levant, and this is the first edition to take into account all the surviving medieval manuscripts and the first to be published since 1841.

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