Legal history meets lexical semantics. Feudal legal terminology in Flanders and England of the 13th and 14th centuries. Ghent University
This project will study the intricacies of medieval multilingualism in law by researching the use of
feudal legal terminology in England and the (Dutch-speaking) part of the county of Flanders during
the 13th and 14th centuries in parallel to examining the development of the corresponding legal
concepts in relation to land tenure. The linguistic landscape in both cases was inhabited by Latin,
French and a Germanic ...