[Download pdf] The Code of Cuenca: Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier (The Middle Ages Series)
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| #5871313 in Books | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2000-04-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.28 x.87 x6.19l,1.22 | File Name: 0812235452 | 256 pages |
||||"This is an important and most useful translation of the fuero de Cuenca, one of the most significant sources for the history of medieval Spain and the medieval West."—Teofilo Ruiz, University of California at Los Angeles|L
Sometime around 1190, King Alfonso VIII of Castile granted a royal charter to the community of Cuenca, a Castilian frontier town recently recaptured from the Muslims and resettled by Christians. The royal charter was in the form of a law code, or fuero. Fueros, which evolved from short lists of exceptions to standing royal directives into much more extensive commentaries on legal matters, were used as an incentive to Christian settlement on the frontier. Reflecting t...
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