Thomas Faulkner

Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781107446892
• ISBN-10: 1107446899
• Artikelnr.: 59078253

Autorenporträt

Thomas Faulkner was awarded his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2010. Since then he has continued his research independently. He has given papers in Cambridge, Heidelberg, Auxerre, Copenhagen and the Institute of Historical Research in London. He has lectured on late antique and early medieval law at the University of Cambridge, and has published his first article, 'The Carolingian kings and the leges barbarorum' (Historical Research 86, 2013). Forthcoming publications include an edition of ordeal manuals found in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts for the Early English Laws project, and contributions to the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, on legal texts, practices and concepts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The minor leges part I. Problems, background, lex ribuaria, ewa ad amorem
2. The minor leges part II. Saxony and the lex saxonum
3. The additional capitularies
4. The reading of normative texts: Benedictus Levita and Regino
5. The manuscripts of the leges-scriptorium
Conclusion
Editions
Bibliography
General index
Index of legal texts
Index of manuscripts.