CONTENTS

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: investigating cultures of law in urban northern Europe

Jackson W. Armstrong and Edda Frankot

PART I

Telling tales

1 Telling tales: maritime law in Aberdeen in the early sixteenth century

J.D.

PART II

Communication of law

2 Common books in Aberdeen, c. 1398–c. 1511

William Hepburn and Graeme Small

3 The language of medieval legal record as a complex multilingual code

Joanna Kopaczyk

4 The vernacularisation of the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398–1511)

Anna D. Havinga

PART III

Jurisdiction and conflict

5 Urban law in Norwegian market towns: legal culture in a long fourteenth century

Miriam Tveit

6 The burgh and the forest: burgesses and officers in fifteenth-century Scotland

Michael H. Brown

7 Pax urbana. The use of law for the achievement of political goals

Jörg Rogge

8 Recalcitrant brides and grooms: jurisdiction, marriage and conflicts with parents in fifteenth-century Ghent

Chanelle Delameillieure and Jelle Haemers

PART IV

Law in practice, in and out of court

9 Legal business outside the courts: private and public houses as spaces of law in the fifteenth century

Edda Frankot

10 Conflicts about property: ships and inheritances in Danzig and in the Hanse area (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries)

Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz

11 �Malice’ and motivation for hostility in the burgh courts of late medieval Aberdeen

Jackson W. Armstrong

PART V

Men of law in Scotland

12 Bells, clocks and the beginnings of �lawyer time’ in late medieval Scotland

David Ditchburn

13 Andrew Alanson: man of law in the Aberdeen Council Register, c. 1440–c. 1475?

Andrew R.C. Simpson

14 Notaries and advocates in early modern Aberdeen

Adelyn L.M.

Index

ILLUSTRATIONS

Figures

3.1 Administrative roles and term overlaps in Scots (solid outline) and Latin (dashed outline) in Leges Burgorum

3.2 Kalisz Land Court Book 2, f.115, R. 407 (1413)

4.1 Percentage of entries with Scots as the matrix language in the Aberdeen Council Registers (1433–1511)

4.2 Percentage of tokens annotated as Scots in the Aberdeen Council Registers (1433–1511)

4.3 Diachronic development of the use of Scots in the Aberdeen Council Registers in per cent (1433–1511)

4.4 Entry ARO-5-0782-01 of the Aberdeen Council Registers, dated 11 November 1454

4.5 Code-Switches (CS) into Latin in volume 5.2 (1441–1472)

4.6 Code-Switches (CS) into Scots in volume 5.2 (1441–1472)

4.7 Entry ARO-5-0676-01 of the Aberdeen Council Registers, dated 9 March 1444

5.1 Map of medieval Norway’s towns

12.1 Hour-dating of protocols in selected notaries’ protocol books

Tables

4.1 The Aberdeen Council Registers corpus

4.2 Matrix languages of entries in the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398–1511)

4.3 Number of tokens in different languages in the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398–1511)

4.4 Number of code-switches in the Aberdeen Council Registers (1398–1511)

8.1 Chronology of events in the case of Gertrude van Oostkerke and Jan van Formelis

9.1 Legal transactions in houses in Kampen: locations named more than once

11.1 Offences associated with precogitata malicia/forthocht felony

11.2 Entries including accusation of precogitata malicia/forthocht felony