Author:
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries. The documents afford unparalleled insight into the structure and values of Germanic society.
The Lombard Laws
Author:
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries. The documents afford unparalleled insight into the structure and values of Germanic society.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries. The documents afford unparalleled insight into the structure and values of Germanic society.
The Lombard Laws
Author: Katherine Fischer Drew
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Lombard Laws -- the laws of Rothair and Grimwald, Liutprand, Ratchis, and Aistulf -- are an extraordinarily important source of information about a people whose contribution to medieval civilization is just beginning to be understood.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Lombard Laws -- the laws of Rothair and Grimwald, Liutprand, Ratchis, and Aistulf -- are an extraordinarily important source of information about a people whose contribution to medieval civilization is just beginning to be understood.
The Laws of the Salian Franks
Author:
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called the Salic law) at approximately the same time that the Visigoths and Burgundians produced theirs, but the Frankish code is the least Romanized and most Germanic of the three. Unlike Roman law, this code does not emphasize marriage and the family, inheritance, gifts, and contracts; rather, Lex Salica is largely devoted to establishing fixed monetary or other penalties for a wide variety of damaging acts such as "killing women and children," "striking a man on the head so that the brain shows," or "skinning a dead horse without the consent of its owner." An important resource for students and scholars of medieval and legal history, made available once again in Katherine Fischer Drew's expert translation, the code contains much information on Frankish judicial procedure. Drew has here rendered into readable English the Pactus Legis Salicae, generally believed to have been issued by the Frankish King Clovis in the early sixth century and modified by his sons and grandson, Childbert I, Chlotar I, and Chilperic I. In addition, she provides a translation of the Lex Salica Karolina, the code as corrected and reissued some three centuries later by Charlemagne.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called the Salic law) at approximately the same time that the Visigoths and Burgundians produced theirs, but the Frankish code is the least Romanized and most Germanic of the three. Unlike Roman law, this code does not emphasize marriage and the family, inheritance, gifts, and contracts; rather, Lex Salica is largely devoted to establishing fixed monetary or other penalties for a wide variety of damaging acts such as "killing women and children," "striking a man on the head so that the brain shows," or "skinning a dead horse without the consent of its owner." An important resource for students and scholars of medieval and legal history, made available once again in Katherine Fischer Drew's expert translation, the code contains much information on Frankish judicial procedure. Drew has here rendered into readable English the Pactus Legis Salicae, generally believed to have been issued by the Frankish King Clovis in the early sixth century and modified by his sons and grandson, Childbert I, Chlotar I, and Chilperic I. In addition, she provides a translation of the Lex Salica Karolina, the code as corrected and reissued some three centuries later by Charlemagne.
Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004448659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages takes a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures, spanning the medieval period across western and central Europe.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004448659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages takes a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures, spanning the medieval period across western and central Europe.
A History of Italian Law
Author: Carlo Calisse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
The Burgundian Code
Author:
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."—from the Foreword, by Edward Peters From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a developed and a tribal society.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."—from the Foreword, by Edward Peters From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a developed and a tribal society.
Christianity and Family Law
Author: John Witte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108415342
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
A comprehensive analysis of Christian influences on Western family law from the first century to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108415342
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
A comprehensive analysis of Christian influences on Western family law from the first century to the present day.
Law and Language in the Middle Ages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004375767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how the language of law legitimates power.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004375767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how the language of law legitimates power.
Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
Author: William Eves
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108960448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays derived from papers delivered at the 24th British Legal History Conference. These essays explore patterns in legal norms, processes, and practice across an exceptionally broad chronological and geographical range. Carefully selected to provide a network of inter-connections, they contribute to our better understanding of legal history by combining depth of analysis with historical contextualization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108960448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays derived from papers delivered at the 24th British Legal History Conference. These essays explore patterns in legal norms, processes, and practice across an exceptionally broad chronological and geographical range. Carefully selected to provide a network of inter-connections, they contribute to our better understanding of legal history by combining depth of analysis with historical contextualization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Hunting Game
Author: Louisa Lombard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic. By treating raiding as a political mode, this fascinating study investigates forceful acquisition, revealing the evolution of raiding skills, examples of encounters and its consequences over the last 150 years.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic. By treating raiding as a political mode, this fascinating study investigates forceful acquisition, revealing the evolution of raiding skills, examples of encounters and its consequences over the last 150 years.