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The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century: Volume I: Legislation and Its Limits

The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century: Volume I: Legislation and Its Limits

Wormald

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0631227407
ISBN13: 9780631227403
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: May 4 2001
Pages: 592
Weight: 2.22
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.76 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
'This volume, originally intended asthe first of two comprising The Making of English Law, provides the first full-length account of the Old English law-codes for over eighty years, and the first that has ever been published in the English language. It is designed to be both an authoritative work of reference for scholars seeking enlightenment on particular legal manuscripts or texts and a coherent account of how the corpus of Old English law from the seventh to the twelfth century came to subsist and survive.

Part I opens with an account of the historians of early English law, including the immortal F. W. Maitland (1850-1906) and Felix Liebermann, author of the definitive edition of the law codes (1898-1916). It then provides the most detailed examination English of law and legislation on the European continent in the post-Roman era and of the earliest Anglo-Saxon legislators in the seventh century. This sets the scene for the law making of King Alfred and his successors.

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