Date of Award
5-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
First Advisor
Dr. Joanna Drell
Second Advisor
Dr. Marina Montesano
Abstract
I conduct a comparative analysis of the Assizes of Romania (c. 1335) in two key spheres of law - the law of the feudal contract and the law of inheritance. I do so by placing the AR alongside a few legal traditions that might plausibly have influenced it: the customary law of different regions in northern France as recorded in the Coutumes de Beauvaisis (c. 1281-3) and the Summa de legibus Normannie (c. 1254-8), those of the Kingdom of Lombardy in Northern Italy in the Libri Feudorum (c. 1120-1200), and the collection of the Crusader law of the Latin East known as the Assizes of Jerusalem (c. 1250-1290). My work shows the unique character of the Assizes of Romania.
Recommended Citation
Silvergleid, Caleb, "The Assizes of Romania: Feudal Law and the Latin East" (2025). Honors Theses. 1858.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/1858
