The Beginnings of English Law / / Lisi Oliver.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Oliver, Lisi,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Map of early Anglo-Saxon England --; 1. Background --; 2. The Laws of Æthelberht --; 3. The Laws of Hlophere & Eadric --; 4. The Laws of Wihtred --; Appendix I: Diplomatic Transcription --; Appendix II: Comparison of Restitution According to Amount in Æthelberht --; Appendix III: Comparison of Restitution According to Status in Æthelberht --; Appendix IV: Payment to the King for Disturbance of the Peace --; Notes --; Glossary --; Concordance of proper names --; Previous editions and translations of the Kentish laws --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442680531; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442680531
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lisi Oliver.

The laws of Æthelbert of Kent (ca. 600), Hlohere and Eadric (685x686), and Wihtred (695), are the earliest laws from Anglo-Saxon England, and the first Germanic laws written in the vernacular. They are of unique importance as the only extant early medieval English laws that delineate the progress of law and legal language in the early days of the conversion to Christianity. Æthelbert's laws, the closest existing equivalent to Germanic law as it was transmitted in a pre-literate period, contrast with Hlohere and Eadric's expanded laws, which concentrate on legal procedure and process, and again contrast with the further changed laws of Wihtred which demonstrate how the new religion of Christianity adapted and changed the law to conform to changing social mores.This volume updates previous works with current scholarship in the fields of linguistics and social and legal history to present new editions and translations of these three Kentish pre-Alfredian laws. Each body of law is situated within its historical, literary, and legal context, annotated, and provided with facing-page translation.