LH0441 Piotr Gorecki on Eastern Europe
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In this podcast, Piotr Gorecki explains that law in medieval Eastern and Central Europe was mainly customary. He analyses the origin of the word “custom”, how it was used at the time, and the concept of “Ius Teutonicum”.
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