Table of Contents

1: The Legal Landscape 2: Customary Law and the Tripartitum 3: Customary Law, Legislation, and Letters 4: Customary Law and Medieval Courts 5: King and Nobility 6: The Nobleman and His Land 7: Crime and Prosecution 8: Medieval Procedure and Judicial Decision Making 9: Early Modern Legal Institutions 10: Codification after the Tripartitum 11: Courts and the Law in the Long Eighteenth Century 12: Custom and Law in the Modern Period Conclusion: Customary Law in Hungary

About the Author

Martyn Rady has taught at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies since 1990, where he is Professor of Central European History. He was a Leverhulme Trust research fellow in 2010-12 and he has an honorary doctorate from the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Budapest. He was for ten years part of the team that edited and translated the corpus of the laws of medieval Hungary and is General Editor of the Slavonic
and East European Review. His previous books include Medieval Buda (1985), and Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary (2000). He has also edited and translated several of the leading Hungarian and Czech medieval
chronicles.

Reviews

Martyn Rady's monograph is a remarkable overview about a large part of Hungarian legal history. Not only does it provide an insight into the history of sources and judicial organization, but it also demonstrates the essence and development of many important legal institutions in the field of private law, criminal law, procedural law and constitutional law.
*Laszlo Komaromi, Parliaments, Estates & Representation*

This book benefits from Radys extensive knowledge not only on the Hungarian and Latin languages but also his commitment to central European history and his long-standing research interests into customary law. ... Not only is it a welcomed addition to the scholarship of Hungarian, but also legal, feudal and central European histories.
*Matthew Martin, SLOVO*