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.
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.
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.
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List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Preface Part I.: 1. The emergence of written law in early England 2. Legal erudition in seventh- and ninth-century Wessex 3. Reshaping tradition: oaths, ordeals, and the 'innovations' of the domboc 4. The transmission of the domboc: old English manuscripts and other early witnesses 5. Reception, editorial history, and interpretative legacies Part II. Editions: 6. Rubrics in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MSS 173 and 383 7. Alfred's prologue 8. The laws of Alfred 9. The laws of Ine Appendix I: handlist of prior editions Bibliography Index.
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Preface Part I.: 1. The emergence of written law in early England 2. Legal erudition in seventh- and ninth-century Wessex 3. Reshaping tradition: oaths, ordeals, and the 'innovations' of the domboc 4. The transmission of the domboc: old English manuscripts and other early witnesses 5. Reception, editorial history, and interpretative legacies Part II. Editions: 6. Rubrics in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MSS 173 and 383 7. Alfred's prologue 8. The laws of Alfred 9. The laws of Ine Appendix I: handlist of prior editions Bibliography Index.
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