Creating a Danish legal language: legal terminology in the medieval Law of Scania
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Creating a Danish legal language: legal terminology in the medieval Law of Scania. / Tamm, Ditlev; Vogt, Helle.
In: Historical Research, Vol. 86, No. 233, 2013, p. 505-514.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Creating a Danish legal language: legal terminology in the medieval Law of Scania
AU - Tamm, Ditlev
AU - Vogt, Helle
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In the decades after 1200 the kingdom of Denmark developed a corpus of provincial laws written in Danish for the three major legal provinces. With the legislation for the eastern province of Scania as a starting point, this article shows how the writing down of the law led not only to the creation of a legal language but to a written vernacular language in general. It was not until the fifteenth century that written Danish was found outside of texts; charters and narrative until that point had been written in Latin.
AB - In the decades after 1200 the kingdom of Denmark developed a corpus of provincial laws written in Danish for the three major legal provinces. With the legislation for the eastern province of Scania as a starting point, this article shows how the writing down of the law led not only to the creation of a legal language but to a written vernacular language in general. It was not until the fifteenth century that written Danish was found outside of texts; charters and narrative until that point had been written in Latin.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 86
SP - 505
EP - 514
JO - Historical Research
JF - Historical Research
SN - 0950-3471
IS - 233
ER -
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