They're the laws for the bourgeosie or the middle class people (merchants mostly, but really anyone who wasn't an aristocrat, who had a different set of laws). In the crusader states they were also the laws for Muslims, Jews, and any other non-Catholic people
That's a really good question...there are a few books but they're all kind of dry reading. I would say Christopher MacEvitt, "The Crusades and the Christian World of the East" is a good one that's recent (and accessible). Otherwise this sort of stuff is mostly in articles and chapters in other books
This is a bit old now, but I guess the classic account about life for the non-crusaders is by Joshua Prawer, “Social classes in the crusader states: The ‘Minorities’”, in the Wisconsin History of the Crusades (in volume 5, from 1985)
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