Mittelalterliches nordisches Recht bis 1500: Eine Quellenkunde

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Literaturpreis 2011 der ‚Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur‘

Medieval Nordic legal sources are to be found from Greenland, the Scandinavian countries to Russia. The acceptance of Christianity led to decisive changes in these legal sources, the polity, private law and everyday life. This volume considers the sources, explains how they came about and reviews their content and their further development until about AD 1500. It presents for the first time a consistent picture of these sources.