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Law of boundaries and its rituals in the era of Přemyslids
Razim, Jakub ; Starý, Marek (advisor) ; Šouša, Jiří (referee)
BORDER LAW AND ITS RITUALS IN THE PŘEMYSLID ERA ABSTRACT: In an attempt to reach a comprehensive understanding of medieval people whose entire lives were anchored in a culture of legal customs, it is only natural that law and its rituals should come into view. Rituals governed society and co-created people's ideas of what was once perceived as right and just. In the present work, we have chosen the period of the Přemyslids as our time frame and, from the wide variety of legal rituals, we have focused on circuits. As the Czech terms ochoz and objezd suggest, this was a traditional behavior that consisted of arranging a procession on foot or horseback, taking place ceremoniously before the eyes of an audience from near and far. The aim of this practice, widely used throughout Europe, was to identify and secure the boundaries within which people were allowed to exercise dominion or ownership over their formally circumscribed territory. After we have presented a succinct overview of the legal historiography that touches our topic, the source base will attract our attention. Given that from the Přemyslid age, that is, before 1306, neither codes of law nor learned treatises on law are available, there is no choice but to turn our eyes elsewhere. Sometimes brief, sometimes more eloquent details of boundary law...
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