The royal charter was in the form of a law code, or fuero. It granted legal incorporation, confirmed local customs or privileges, and might include rights to taxation or selfgovernment. Una perspectiva metodologica, madrid, 1995, ediciones polifemo, pp. It exposes the status quaestionis of what we know about fuero of cuenca and their family, it also analyzes the intluence eiercised by the ius commune. University studies, published by the university of cincinnati, 19091910. Conceptually, they derived from the older germanic tradition of. The latin text of the municipal charter and laws of the city of cuenca. Municipal law on the twelfthcentury castilian frontier, philadelphia, university ot penssylvania press. The latin text of the municipal charter and laws of the city of cuenca, spain, cincinnati, cincinnati university press. The word is also applied to a codethe liber judiciorum of the visigothsknown in the middle ages as the. Fueros, which evolved from short lists of exceptions to standing royal directives into much more extensive. Fuero, from latin forum, marketplace, in medieval spain, a municipal franchise conferred on a community by the crown or by a noble or bishop. Cuenca is located across a steep spur, whose slopes descend into deep gorges of the jucar and huecar rivers.
The climate of cuenca is the typical continental mediterranean of spains meseta inner plateau. Throughout the thirteenth century the extensive castilian fueros were emptied of content due to the advance of royal legislation applied to the whole kingdom. It is essentially a translation of the liber iudiciorum that was formulated in 654 by the visigoths the fuero juzgo was first applied legally as a fuero local in several kingdoms in the middle of the iberian peninsula that castile slowly reconquered from. Fueros play an extremely important role in the development of medieval hispanic law. Le envio a nuestra amable lectora respuesta a su escrito.
Find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. The new episcopal seat was also reestablished straightaway in cuenca. The fuero juzgo was first applied legally as a fuero local in several kingdoms in the middle of the iberian peninsula that castile slowly reconquered from muslim rulers.
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