Schwabenspiegel

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Charlemagne as legislator of the Schwabenspiegel, MS Bruxellensis 14689-91, fol. 95v

The Schwabenspiegel is a legal book for non-Saxon Germany created around 1275 by an unknown Augsburg Franciscan .

In the medieval form of a mirror, it deals primarily with land and feudal law (including imperial law ). The Schwabenspiegel is based on sources from the Bible , Roman and Canon Law as well as imperial laws and is based on Sachsenspiegel and Deutschenspiegel . The Schwabenspiegel also contains a longer chapter of the special law applicable to Jews , including the oath of Jews , the king's patronage over the Jews, the prohibition of the use of force against Jews and the so-called fence privilege . The prohibition of mixed marriages , the promotion of conversion and special clothing regulations stem from canon law .

The title Schwabenspiegel for the legal book was coined by the late Swiss humanist Melchior Goldast in the early 17th century.

literature

  • Harald Derschka : The Schwabenspiegel translated into today's German with illustrations from old manuscripts , CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49293-2 .
  • Jens Peter Kutz: The village and the rural world in Schwabenspiegel. A legal book as a socio-historical source. In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine (ZGO) 156, 2008, pp. 85-107.
  • Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt: Das Alsfelder Stadtrechtsbuch: origin, author, content, relationship to the Frankenberger Stadtrechtsbuch and to the Schwabenspiegel , [Freiburg] 1993, DNB 944368859 (dissertation University Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, 241 pages).
  • Karl August Eckhardt : The German mirror , its history and its relationship to the Schwabenspiegel , Böhlau, Weimar 1924, OCLC 264660519 (habilitation thesis Universität Göttingen 1924, 88 pages).
  • Christa Bertelsmeier-Kierst: Communication and Domination. On the vernacular process of writing law in the 13th century . Stuttgart, Hirzel 2008 ( magazine for German antiquity and German literature , supplement 9).

Web links

Wikisource: Schwabenspiegel  - Sources and full texts
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