The Laws of Alfred: The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law (Paperback or Softback)

Jurasinski, Stefan

ISBN 10: 1108744370 / ISBN 13: 9781108744379

Edité par Cambridge University Press 12/7/2023, 2023

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The Laws of Alfred: The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law.

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• Titre: The Laws of Alfred: The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law (Paperback or Softback)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press 12/7/2023
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1108744370
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781108744379
• Reliure: Paperback or Softback
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 1,59 livre
• Type de livre: Book

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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.

À propos des auteurs

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.

Lisi Oliver, author of The Beginnings of English Law (2013) and The Body Legal and Barbarian Law (2011), was Houston Alumni Professor of English and Distinguished Research Master at Louisiana State University. With Andrew Rabin and Stefan Jurasinski, she edited English Law Before Magna Carta.