Jews in the notarial culture
Subtitle: Latinate wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350
By: Robert I. Burns.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Wills -- Spain -- History.; Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Spain -- History.; Wills (Jewish law)
Description: In the rapidly transforming world of thirteenth-century Mediterranean Spain, the all-purpose scribe and contract drafter known as the notary became a familiar figure. Most legal transactions of the Roman Law Renaissance were framed in this functionary's shorthand, and for that reason, notarial archives offer a remarkable window on the daily life of this pluri-ethnic society.

Robert Burns brings together the testimony of a multitude of documents, and transcribes in full nearly fifty Jewish wills and will-related charters prepared by notaries, to give a never-before-seen view of Jewish society in that place and time.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-261) and index.