Overview
This is the first comprehensive treatment in any language on the history of customary law in Hungary. It covers the period from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries. Its starting-point is the customary law code published by Stephen Werboczy in 1517, which is known as the Tripartitum. Customary Law in Hungary discusses the composition, structure, and procedures of the courts as well as the substantive law of the kingdom, with special reference to noble land holding, and includes aspects of Hungarian public law, most notably the royal succession, the right of resistance, the making of statute law, and the use in the modern period of ministerial decrees and judicial decisions. The nature of customary law is discussed and, likewise, its deployment in the modern period as a rhetorical device. This volume has a considerable comparative content which will be of interest to legal historians as well as to specialists in Central European history.
Full Product Details
Author: Martyn Rady (Professor of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and General Editor of the Slavonic and East European Review, University College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.50cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.578kg
ISBN: 9780198743910
ISBN 10: 0198743912
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 August 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This book benefits from Radys extensive knowledge not only on the Hungarian and Latin languages but also his commitment to central European history and his long-standing research interests into customary law. ... Not only is it a welcomed addition to the scholarship of Hungarian, but also legal, feudal and central European histories. Matthew Martin, SLOVO
Author Information
Martyn Rady has taught at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies since 1990, where he is Professor of Central European History. He was a Leverhulme Trust research fellow in 2010-12 and he has an honorary doctorate from the Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Budapest. He was for ten years part of the team that edited and translated the corpus of the laws of medieval Hungary and is General Editor of the Slavonic and East European Review. His previous books include Medieval Buda (1985), and Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary (2000). He has also edited and translated several of the leading Hungarian and Czech medieval chronicles.
