Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780631227403
Year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 596


Description:
?This volume, originally intended asthe first of two
comprising The Making of English Law, provides the first
full-length account of the Old English law-codes for over eighty
years, and the first that has ever been published in the English
language. It is designed to be both an authoritative work of
reference for scholars seeking enlightenment on particular legal
manuscripts or texts and a coherent account of how the corpus of
Old English law from the seventh to the twelfth century came to
subsist and survive.


Part I opens with an account of the historians of early English
law, including the immortal F. W. Maitland (1850-1906) and Felix
Liebermann, author of the definitive edition of the law codes
(1898-1916). It then provides the most detailed examination English
of law and legislation on the European continent in the post-Roman
era and of the earliest Anglo-Saxon legislators in the seventh
century. This sets the scene for the law making of King Alfred and
his successors.


As well as providing an authoritative account of Anglo-Saxon
legislation this much-anticipated book opens new perspectives on
the emergence of the English State. It will be welcomed as a
landmark in the study of English law and government, and as an
exploration of the problem of authority in a pre-modern
society.?


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