The Coutumes de Beauvaisis of Philippe de Beaumanoir

F. R. P. Akehurst provides the first English translation of the complete text of Coutumes, the customary law of Clermont in the Beauvais region as it was practiced and understood in the late thirteenth century. The Coutumes de Beauvaisis provides a unique perspective on thirteenth-century civil and criminal trials.

Author: Philippe de Beaumanoir
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 02/29/1992
Pages: 792
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.63d
ISBN: 9780812231052

About the Author
F. R. P. Akehurst is Professor of French at the University of Minnesota and translator of The Etablissements de Saint Louis: Thirteenth-Century Law Texts from Tours, Orleans, and Paris.