What is it about?
Parallels in medieval Irish law about cows and bees
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Why is it important?
At first view, cows and bees are really different. But not for medieval Irish lawyers, who built a law-tract on bees based particularly upon law-tracts on cattle and cows.
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This article tries to put in light the importance of the concept of "analogy" in the making of law.
Mr Hily Gaël
Universite de Rennes 2
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This page is a summary of: Et la vache devint abeille. Le jugement par analogie dans l’Irlande médiévale, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/zcph.2015.003.
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