The Laws of Alfred : The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Legal History
ISBN-10
1108840906
ISBN-13
9781108840903
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 27th, 2021
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
836 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 3.80 cms
Product Classification:
European historyMedieval historyLegal history
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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.
Alfred the Great''s domboc (''book of laws'') is the longest and most ambitious legal text of the Anglo-Saxon period. Alfred places his own laws, dealing with everything from sanctuary to feuding to the theft of bees, between a lengthy translation of legal passages from the Bible and the legislation of the West-Saxon King Ine (r. 688–726), which rival his own in length and scope. This book is the first critical edition of the domboc published in over a century, as well as a new translation. Five introductory chapters offer fresh insights into the laws of Alfred and Ine, considering their backgrounds, their relationship to early medieval legal culture, their manuscript evidence and their reception in later centuries. Rather than a haphazard accumulation of ordinances, the domboc is shown to issue from deep reflection on the nature of law itself, whose effects would permanently alter the development of early English legislation.
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