The Legal Code of Ælfred the Great: Edited with an Introduction (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Milton Haight Turk

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ISBN 10 : 1332932436 ISBN 13 : 9781332932436

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The preparation of a separate edition of Elfred s Legal Code is due to the conviction that the nature of this work rendered desirable its consideration from a literary point of view. Philologically also its existence in one very old manuscript gives it among A nglo-S axon Law-B ooks a peculiar value. But its chief claim to special consideration rests upon its authors great significance in A nglo-S axon Literature. King Alfred sliterary tastes and occupations strongly colour this work; indeed in the Introduction the lawgiver iw plainly supplanted by the man of letters, who, even in the actual laws, often presses close to the view. To prepare this monument for a place among Alfred sliterary works is the object of the present edition. The last edition from the Mss. T horpe s, 1840) gave Erather inaccurately. We print from our own copies E, B, and the fragments Ot and Bu. Tbe parts of the Vulgate used by JE. in his introduction are given parallel to Ms. E. Besides the Bibliography and description and examination of the Manuscripts, with a discussion of the sources of Lambarde stext, an attempt is made to elucidate the literary characteristics of the work, to define the position of the laws called I nes in it, and, as well as may be, to ascertain the probable date of its publication. Although our citations are, with few exceptions, independent, yet the Bibliography owes a considerable debt to Professor Wulkei s Giundriss zur Geschiehte der Angelsaehsischen Litteratur ,as must every work of this kind in the department of A nglo-S axon, Furthermore, the consideration of the order of jE.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332932436
• ISBN 13: 9781332932436
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 155
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