GANSHOF (François-Louis) – RESEARCH ON CAPITULAR DECREES, Legal History Society
GANSHOF (François-Louis) – RESEARCH ON CAPITULAR DECREES, Legal History Society
GANSHOF (François-Louis) – RESEARCH ON CAPITULAR DECREES, Legal History Society
    GANSHOF (François-Louis)
    RESEARCH ON CAPITULAR DEEDS, Legal History Society
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1958
    octavo, half ivory vellum, gilt title on brown morocco leather with gilt fillets framing, spine decorated with gilt lace, binding with the monogram "J. G. G.", original cover preserved, good condition, 130 p.
    The author presents us with the results of long and meticulous research on the external history of Frankish capitularies, striving, as he explains in his introduction, to answer the question: “What were capitularies?” (…) To use Mr. Ganshof’s definition, “capitularies are acts of power whose text was generally divided into articles (capitulum), and which several Carolingian sovereigns used to publish legislative or administrative measures (p. 3).” The author then addresses, one after another, the various problems raised by the external history of these acts, of which we do not even have a satisfactory edition today. (…) The examination of each of these problems is the subject of sober development, in a deliberately concise style; all polemics are avoided in a subject that has given rise to so much discussion; but no problem is sidestepped, no difficulty is passed over in silence. The entire work is a masterpiece of serene objectivity and lucid critical thinking, supported by profound erudition. Mr. Ganshof is a legal historian: he is familiar with the modern distinctions between legislative acts, regulatory acts, and ordinary administrative acts; he recalls these concepts, not to transpose them into Frankish legislation, but to better highlight the originality, the "singular" character of the Frankish capitularies. (...) To summarize these brief observations, one can say that Mr. Ganshof's work gives us the key to the capitularies, providing us with an indispensable guide for their study. (René Filhol, Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, no. April-June 1959, p. 221 et seq.).

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Mots-clés : Ancient Law - History of Law

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