| Titre | Un mode singulier d'affichage des lois et des coutumes au Moyen Âge. : La traille de la cathédrale Saint-Lambert de Liège | |
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| Auteur | Paul Bruyère | |
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Revue | Le Moyen Age |
| Numéro | tome 113, no 2, 2007 | |
| Page | 273-308 | |
| Résumé anglais |
A singular way of displaying laws and customs in the Middle Ages. The traille
in the Cathedral of Saint Lambert in Liège.
A careful examination of texts from the end of the Middle Ages has enabled the identification of a singular way of displaying the law of the City and the country of Liège.
Going into its cathedral, the citizen of Liège was able to consult, leafing through it in
a little recess carved out of a pillar behind a gate and closed by a grille (the “traille”),
the book in which were registered a copy of the statutes and the privileges he enjoyed. The texts compiled in this book, which the “traille” encloses, and which we
have largely been able to restore, are a condensation of the liberties and privileges
acquired over time by the people from its rulers. Literate men, jurisconsults, experts
in customary law or public officials had to hand a kind of code of public law governing the social, political and even the economic life of the country. For over two
centuries, perhaps more, the different groups constituting the political community
agreed on a ius commune, a municipal and “national” customary law, which ensured
social peace. Thus, Liège, well-known for its forward-looking advances in matters
of individual liberty, of the control and separation of powers, is also ahead of most
foreign cities in the field of legal publicity; the registration of the law is not confined
to the clerk's office in sovereign court. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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