Inleiding tot het Rooms-Friese recht

URL study guide

https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/R_InlRFR

Course Objective

The purpose of the course is to make students familiar with primary sources and give them insight of the reception of the Roman delicts in early modern times, more specifically in the eighteenth century litigations of the Court of Friesland. At the end of the course the students are capable of reading and analyzing independently primary sources (related to the subject discussed) and critically reflecting upon these sources.

Course Content

Students become familiar with the various auxiliary disciplines which are used in legal historical research, such as archival sciences, paleography and historiography. Accordingly, working with manuscript sources and archive visits constitute a main part of this course. By reading a concrete process file we investigate the Frisian law of the early modern times: the legal sources (Roman Frisian law), procedure law and the most important authors. The subject is focusing on damages caused by animals. As a consequence this course is closely connected to subject matters of the regular course History of Law.

Teaching Methods

Seminars: 7 weeks, 2 hours a week.

Method of Assessment

Course participation (50%), oral presentation (25%), written paper (25%)

Literature

available on canvas

Target Audience

Honours students Regular bachelor students
- these students can also participate in this course without writing a paper. These students do not receive any credits.

Additional Information

An academic excursion to Friesland is part of the course.