Eike von Repgow, a freeman of Rettichau near Aken on the Elbe, was in his time an advisor to the rulers of Thuringia, Brandenburg, Upper and Lower Saxony. In the early 13th century he set down the "Sachsenspiegel", thus creating a record of one of the oldest German legal codices, that was of immense impact on the Middle Ages. He aimed to collect a complete oral tradition of law in his mother land, Saxony, for any person studying this period of history. The writer presents the administration of the then law in two parts, Rural and Feudal. Testimonies on the impact and reception of the...