TY - BOOK AU - Rio,Alice TI - Legal practice and the written word in the early middle ages: Frankish formulae, c. 500-1000 T2 - Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought SN - 9780511540714 AV - KJ320 .R56 2009 U1 - 340.5/5 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Law, Frankish KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Formularies (Diplomatics) KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Forms (Frankish law) KW - Sources KW - Droit franc KW - LAW KW - Customary KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Government KW - Comparative KW - Derecho franco KW - Formularios KW - embne KW - fast KW - Urkunde KW - gnd KW - Procesformules KW - gtt KW - Franken (volk) KW - droit KW - formule KW - époque mérovingienne KW - époque carolingienne KW - rero KW - formulaire (droit) KW - Lagar KW - historia KW - Karolingiska riket KW - sao KW - Fränkisches Reich KW - Electronic books KW - Early works KW - gtlm N1 - Numbering from publisher's Web site; Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-293) and indexes; Orality and literacy in Frankish society -- An uneasy partnership? : formulae and charters -- Defining the corpus -- Catalogue of the collections -- Dating formulae -- Local context and diffusion -- From late antique notaries to ecclesiastical scribes : when, where and why formularies survive -- Formulae and written law -- A methodological test-case : slavery and unfreedom in the formularies N2 - Legal formularies are books of model legal documents compiled by early medieval scribes for their own use and that of their pupils. By taking a fresh look at Frankish legal formularies from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods, this book provides a detailed analysis of the problems and possibilities associated with formularies UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=279895 ER -