Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 331 Seiten
Reihe: Mediaevalia Groningana
Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 331 Seiten
Reihe: Mediaevalia Groningana
ISBN: 978-90-429-3979-0
Verlag: PEETERS PUB
As broad in scope as the interests of its honoree, this volume brings
together leading historians of early English and continental law to pay
tribute to Lisi Oliver. The essays gathered here range from the earliest
laws of the kings of Kent in the seventh century to the reception of Old
English law in the seventeenth. Interested both in how law was made and
the ways in which it was applied, the contributors explore the careers
of such prominent legislators as Alfred the Great and Wulfstan of York
while also examining issues of gender, social status and textual
transmission. This volume will be essential reading for anyone
interested in the history of law, the legal culture of Anglo-Saxon
England, and the emergence of modern concepts of self and statehood in
the early Middle Ages.