The Road to Judgment : : From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales / / Robin Chapman Stacey.
Examines the institution of personal suretyship through the remarkable rich sources extant from medieval Ireland and Wales.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 4 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Law and Lawbooks in Medieval Ireland and Wales
- 2. Contractual Suretyship in Irish Law
- 3. The Social Context of Personal Suretyship
- 4. The Hostage-Sureties of Irish Law
- 5. The Road to Judgment
- 6. Court and Custom in Medieval Wales
- 7. Past and Present in the Law of Hywel
- 8. The Suretyship of the Gods
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter