Ancient Laws and Institutes of England 2 Volume Set

Comprising Laws Enacted under the Anglo-Saxon Kings from Aethelbirht to Cnut
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-108-04516-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Medienkombination, Englisch, 1466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 2300 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History

Originally published for the Record Commissioners in 1840, this two-volume work remains a standard source for scholars of Anglo-Saxon and early Norman legal history. Benjamin Thorpe (1781?–1870) was a respected and prolific scholar and translator of Old English, whose publications in the field earned him a civil list pension in 1835. Trained in Copenhagen under Rasmus Rask, Thorpe advocated a scientific approach to philology, and this is reflected in the thoroughness of the notes, commentary, and concordance appended to the sources reprinted here. The preface to the text places the laws in their historical and geographical context, notes where there are unavoidable gaps in the evidence, and offers a descriptive analysis of the original documents. There is a parallel translation of the Anglo-Saxon text, although the original sources in Latin and Norman French remain untranslated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thorpe, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Preface; List of manuscripts and printed books; Anglo-Saxon Laws: 1. The laws of King Æthelbirht; 2. The laws of Kings Hlothhaere and Eadric; 3. The laws of King Wihtraed; 4. The laws of King Alfred; 5. The laws of King Ine; 6. Alfred and Guthrum's peace; 7. The laws of King Edward; 8. The laws of Edward and Guthrum; 9. Of Wers; 10. Of oaths; 11. Of Wer-gilds; 12. Of Mercian law; 13. Ranks; 14. The laws of King Æthelstan; 15. The laws of King Edmund; 16. The laws of King Edgar; 17. The laws of King Ethelred; 18. Ordinance respecting the 'Dun-setas'; 19. The laws of King Cnut; 20. Rectitudines singularum personarum; 21. Leges Regis Edwardi Confessoris; 22. The laws of King William the Conqueror; 23. Leges Regis Henrici Primi; Notes on the laws ascribed to King Henry I; Additional remarks; Table of concordance; Index. Volume 2: Monumenta Ecclesiastica: 1. Theodori Arch. Cant. Liber Poenitentialis; 2. Capitula et Fragmenta Theodori; 3. Dialogus Ecgberti, Arch. Ebor.; 4. Excerptiones Ecgberti, Arch. Ebor.; 5. Confessionale Ecgberti, Arch. Ebor.; 6. Poenitentiale Ecgberti, Arch. Ebor.; 7. Of ecclesiastical compensations, or 'Bots'; 8. Canons enacted under King Edgar; 9. Law of the Northumbrian priests; 10. Institutes of polity, civil and ecclesiastical; 11. The canons of Aelfric; 12. Aelfric's pastoral epistle; 13. Aelfric's epistle, entitled 'Quando dividis Chrisma'; 14. Ecclesiastical institutes; 15. Legum Anglo-Saxonicarum; Versio Antiqua: 16. Leges Aluredi Regis West-Saxonum; 17. Leges Inae Regis West-Saxiae; 18. Foedus inter Alfredum et Guthrum; 19. Leges Regis Edwardi; 20. Leges Regum Alfredi et Godrini; 21. De weregildis; 22. De juramentis; 23. De weregildis singularum personarum cum Anglis; 24. De eodem in Mercennorum laga; 25. De veteri consuetudine promotionum; 26. Leges Aethelstani; 27. Leges Regis Eadmundi; 28. Leges Regis Eadgari; 29. Institutiones Aethelredi Regis; 30. Senatus consultum de Monticolis Walliae; 31. Leges Regis Cnuti; 32. Monumentorum Ecclesiasticorum; Versio Antiqua: 33. De emendatione et infractura ordinis; 34. De officio episcopi; Index; Glossary.