The scabini in historiographical perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12732268 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Hicklin (0000-0002-9511-964X, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/hic3.12624 |
| OpenAlex | W3048629781 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
The introduction of the scabini , men who served as judgement finders, has long been connected to judicial reform enacted by Charlemagne. By the thirteenth century, the term scabini had become synonymous with legal culture and courts from Norway to Hungary and beyond. This article will trace the scabini from historiographical debates over their provenance, to their introduction under Charlemagne, why and how this change was enacted, their duties and the impact of the reform on terminology and the writing of documentary texts. This touches on keystones of changing historiographical perspectives of the Carolingians: from nineteenth‐century views of a ‘Germanic’ past that privileged collective judgement to twentieth‐century emphasis on the written word as a mode of governance and the relationship between Charlemagne and the aristocracy, and recent attention to the function of capitularies in tenth‐century western Europe. It will explore the alleged disappearance of the scabini , a development that is connected in scholarship to nothing less significant than debates concerning the feudal revolution, before considering areas for future study
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Feudalism · Historiography · Judgement · Linguistics · Literature · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Terminology · Classics · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
The Origins of the European Legal Order
Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages
Fiefs And Vassals
Charlemagne's Practice of Empire
Capitularies in the Carolingian Period
The Historiography of a Construct
Capitularies in the Ottonian realm
Georges Duby’s Mâconnais after fifty years
The Fideles in the County of Mâcon
The Impact of Charlemagne on the Institutions of the Frankish Realm
The Scabini and the Local Courts
The Meaning of Placitum and Mallum in the Capitularies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |