The Laws of Alfred: The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law

ISBN-13: 9781108840903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

Stefan Jurasinski; Lisi Oliver

Opis

The first critical edition of Alfred the Great's domboc ('book of laws') in over a century.

Recenzje

'A reliable and richly annotated text suitable for both the seasoned historian of early medieval Britain and the student reader. … This is a remarkable volume, without which no shelf of early medieval European history or legal history will be complete.' Roy Flechner, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

Spis treści

List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I.: 1. The emergence of written law in early England; 2. Legal erudition in seventh- and ninth-century Wessex; 3. Reshaping tradition: oaths, ordeals, and the 'innovations' of the domboc; 4. The transmission of the domboc: old English manuscripts and other early witnesses; 5. Reception, editorial history, and interpretative legacies; Part II. Editions: 6. Rubrics in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MSS 173 and 383; 7. Alfred's prologue; 8. The laws of Alfred; 9. The laws of Ine; Appendix I: handlist of prior editions; Bibliography; Index.