Stefan Jurasinski (State University College, Brockport, New York), Lisi Oliver (Louisiana State University)

The Laws of Alfred

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Produktbeschreibung

King Alfred's domboc ('book of laws'), the most ambitious legal text of the Anglo-Saxon period, combines translated biblical laws with Alfred's own ordinances and those of the early West-Saxon King Ine. This edition and commentary - the first in over a century - will interest all students of English history and law.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Legal History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9781108744379
• ISBN-10: 1108744370
• Artikelnr.: 68887847

Autorenporträt

Stefan Jurasinski is Professor of English at State University College, Brockport, New York. He is the author of The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law (Cambridge, 2015) and, with R. D. Fulk, The Old English Canons of Theodore (2012). With Andrew Rabin, he edited Languages of the Law in Early Medieval England: Essays in Memory of Lisi Oliver.

Inhaltsangabe

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.