Consuetudo

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Consuetudo ( lat. For habits, customs , . Pl consuetudines ), is a term that is used both in jurisprudential and religious sense.

In the legal sense, it stands for customary law , especially in ancient Rome . Furthermore, he will refer to monastic customs, so in connection with the Antiquiores consuetudines Cluniacensis monasterii written by Ulrich von Zell . Christian Gnilka points out that the term can also designate the pagan religions , which in the Middle Ages were not regarded as belief but as "habit". In the Christian sense , consuetudines are records of religious rules, supplementary ritual instructions or rule interpretations in the various religious communities . Customs are also recorded in ritualia and other handbooks of monastic life, such as the Codex Guta-Sintram .

literature

  • Werner Flume : Customary Law and Roman Law , Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences , Lectures G 201, 1975.
  • Christian Gnilka: Culture and Conversion (= Chrēsis. Vol. 2). Schwabe, Basel 1993, ISBN 3-7965-0951-7 .
  • Kassius Hallinger: Consuetudo. Concept, forms, research history, content. In: Studies on monastery and monastery (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History (Göttingen). Vol. 68; Studies on Germania Sacra . Vol. 14). Edited by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3-525-35381-2 , pp. 140-166.
  • Burkhard Schmiedel: Consuetudo in classical and post-classical Roman law , Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shajkovci: longa consuetudo. In: OpinioIuris.de, August 2, 2012, accessed on June 27, 2016.