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DEALING WITH CROSS-BORDER CONFLICTS IN BOHEMIA DURING THE REIGN OF THE PREMYSLID DYNASTY: TO THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE CZECH LEGAL MEDIEVAL STUDIES
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In this paper, the authors present a legal-historical analysis of conflicts and their solutions in Bohemia during the reign of the Přemyslid dynasty. It takes into account the methodological incentives which were introduced to the legal medieval studies by a so-called “performative turn” that helped to direct the interest of social science to the typical forms, symbolic contents and social functions of human behaviour. As opposed to the existing research tradition which aims at the political and power-related links, the authors try to cross the narrow boarders of their expertise and approach the conflicts in society in a more complex manner than how it was presented by the previous legal historiography. The focus of attention used to be primarily on all kinds of courts or tribunals of various instances, however, current historians aim more and more often at institutions and techniques that resolved disputes out of court. Therefore, this paper targets the disputes settled out of the system of courts, mainly those that involved a cross-border element and were dealt with either at the central level of political representations or at the level of regional elites. Although the issue of a “conflict society”, which occurs throughout the social hierarchy, cannot be described in a single monograph, the authors tried at least, in accordance with the current trends, to present the subject of their research in an exemplary analysis.
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John HUDSON, Legal History and the History of Disputes. In: Kim ESMARK et al. (edd.), Disputing strategies in medieval Scandinavia. Leiden 2013, p. 335.
More in: Gerhard DILCHER, Normen zwischen Oralität und Schriftkultur: Studien zum mittelalterlichen Rechtsbegriff und zum langobardischen Recht. Köln-Weimar-Wien 2008.
Warren Curtis BROWN-Piotr GÓRECKI, What Conflict Means: The Making of Medieval Conflict Studies in the United States, 1970-2000. In: Warren Curtis BROWN-Piotr GÓRECKI (edd.), Conflict in Medieval Europe: Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture. Aldershot 2003, p. 1.
For more details see: Jakub RAZIM, Fenomén lenního rituálu mezi dějepisnou tradicí a postmoderní kritikou: Kajícná pouť knížete Břetislava do Řezna roku 1041. In: Ladislav VOJÁČEK-Jaromír TAUCHEN (edd.), I. česko-slovenské setkání doktorských studentů a postdoktorandů oboru právní historie a římského práva. Sborník příspěvků z konference. Brno 2013. p. 231-248.
Main source on the Regensburg Congress: Wilhelm von GIESEBRECHT- Edmund von OEFELE (edd.), Annales Altahenses maiores. Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 4. Hannover 1891, p. 27-28.
Basic information in: Gerd ALTHOFF, Das Privileg der deditio. Formen gütlicher Konfliktbeendigung in der mittelalterlichen Adelsgesellschaft. In: Gerd ALTHOFF (ed.), Spielregeln der Politik im Mittelalter. Kommunikation in Frieden und Fehde. Darmstadt 1997, p. 99-125, or newer author’s works.
These documents with the Bohemical character were published in the form of a full-text document within the editions: Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae, vol. IV (further only CDM) and Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris regni Bohemiae, vol. IV-VI (further only CDB). In the form of abstracts within the edition Regesta diplomatica nec non epistolaria regni Bohemiae, vol. II (further only RBM), most recently within Katalog listin a listů k VII. dílu Českého diplomatáře (further only Catalogue).
Most recently on the topic: Naďa ŠTACHOVÁ, Komunikace na pomezí hranic na příkladu právních vztahů se zahraničním prvkem. In: Jaromír TAUCHEN-Karel SCHELLE (edd.), Státoprávní vztahy českého státu a římskoněmecké říše ve středověku a jejich důsledky pro další vývoj. (Sborník z kolokvia pořádaného Katedrou dějin státu a práva Právnické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity a The European Society for History of Law). Ostrava 2012, p. 53-63.
On the basis of studying the sources of Roman law and works of the glossators and commentators, the issue of arbitration was recently covered by Rafał WOJCIECHOWSKI, Arbitraż w doktrynie prawnej średniowiecza. Wrocław 2010.
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