„Právo knížete“ a „právo země“ jako pojmy staršího středověku

• Authors: Josef Žemlička

Title variants

EN

“Ducal Law” and “the Law of the Land” as Concepts in the Late Middle Ages

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Th is study deals with two concepts which played a fundamental part in understanding the role of an early “state” and its financial base, not merely in Bohemia but also in Silesia and Poland, in particular. Firstly, there was “ducal law” (ius, iura ducis), which was understood to be a set of pensions, incomes, fees, corvée and various monopolies to which the ruler claimed an entitlement based on the title of his sovereignty over the land and the “people”. Consequently, the early state, or respectively its governing and executive powers were “nourished” by those means. The other concept is “the law of the land” (ius terrae), to which the nobility later looked and understood it as an expression of their privileged position as opposed to the ruler’s powers.

Keywords

EN

Bohemia; the Middle Ages; Law; Ducal law; Premyslid

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 113
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 303-345

Contributors

author

Josef Žemlička

• Historický ústav AV ČR, Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic