Ius saxonico-maideburgense in Oriente
DIE REIHE: IVS-SAXONICO-MAIDEBVRGENSE IN ORIENTE
Die Reihe versammelt vornehmlich die Arbeitsergebnisse des Akademievorhabens "Das sächsisch-magdeburgische Recht als kulturelles Bindeglied zwischen den Rechtsordnungen Ost- und Mitteleuropas". Neben diesen handbuchartigen Publikationen zu den Untersuchungsgebieten (Polen, Ungarn/Rumänien, Tschechien/Slowakei, Baltikum, Ukraine, Weißrussland, ...) finden hier Studien zu Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit dem Transfer sächsisch-magdeburgischen Rechts in Ostmitteleuropa ihren Platz.
This work demonstrates the reciprocal influences in Saxon-Magdeburg legal norms using the example of the Saxon and Sillein municipal laws. The book stands out for its contribution to the literature on Czech and Slovak studies, exploring fundamental issues in the fields of legal history, linguistic history, and the history of research while offering a detailed analysis of the relationship between the German, Czech, and Slovak legal languages.
The volume includes contributions presented at two academic conferences organized by the Department of European Legal History at the University of Szeged in Hungary. The principal subjects are medieval German books of law and their impact on legal life in Hungary. The specific impetus for the conferences was the publication in Hungarian translation of the two most influential German law books – the Sachsenspiegel and the Schwabenspiegel.
For many centuries, the Sachsenspiegel (Saxon code of law) and Magdeburg Law shaped the legal cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the spread of these legal systems to the Danube and Carpathian regions, including the roles played by medieval municipal law and the settlement of new territories.
Volume two of the series IVS SAXONICO-MAIDEBVRGENSE IN ORIENTE presents the results of investigation into the dissemination of the law book Sachsenspiegel, Magdeburg city law, and related legal sources in Poland. The research project, carried out at the Saxony Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, examined not only how legal norms were influenced and exerted their own impacts, but also the effects of language on law.
The international and interdisciplinary conference in Leipzig from October 31 to 2 November 2003 forms the prelude to a major research project on the subject “Saxon-Magdeburg law as a cultural link between the legal systems of Eastern and Central Europe”. The conference took place in an extremely up-to-date context, as the extension of the EU through the accession of several eastern central European countries was about to take place.
