Alice TAVARES

Original title: Los fueros extensos portugueses: los casos de Cima Coa, Guarda, Santarém, Évora y Beja. Retos y metodologías

Published in Society and Culture in Portugal

Keywords: Common Law, Middle Ages, Portugal, XIII-XIV Century’s.

The aim of this study is to provide an analysis about the customary and laws of the Portuguese medieval town’s councils (13th and 14th Century’s). We select some cases: Cima Coa Coa (Alfaiates, Castelo Bom, Castelo Melhor e Castelo Rodrigo), Guarda, Santarém, Évora, Borba and Beja. In this article we will analyse this local source of common-laws with the aim of making a reflection about the origins, characteristics, processes of formation of the various corpora.