The law of a frontier town as it stood in 1200: the council and its judges, the obligations of mounted and foot townsmen for the summer raid and the king's host, the division of booty and ransoms, the treatment of Muslim captives and resident Muslims and Jews, markets, irrigation, women and inheritance, and the tariff of crimes. The model for the fueros of Teruel, Plasencia and the whole Castile-Aragon frontier belt, so it describes how the raiding society facing the Almohads actually worked.
About this source
- Title
- Forum Conche (Fuero de Cuenca)
- Author
- Anonymous, granted by Alfonso VIII of Castile
- Written
- about 1189 to 1193
- Language
- Latin, with Castilian versions
- Covers
- the customs of a Castilian frontier town about 1190
- Kind
- Law
The date of the grant is argued between 1177 and about 1190; the surviving texts are early 13th century. No free copy located in this pass.
Where to read it
Editions
- R. de Urena y Smenjaud (ed.), Fuero de Cuenca (formas primitiva y sistematica: texto latino, texto castellano y adaptacion del Fuero de Iznatoraf) (Madrid, 1935), not free online as far as found (not freely online)
- G. H. Allen (ed.), Forum Conche, University of Cincinnati Studies (1909 to 1910); not located online in this pass (not freely online)
Translations
- J. F. Powers, The Code of Cuenca: Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier (2000), English, not free (not freely online)