God's Peace and King's Peace : : The Laws of Edward the Confessor / / Bruce R. O'Brien.
Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been sp...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Map of the Author's Kingdom: England in the Twelfth Century
- Introduction
- 1. "After the Acquisition of This Land"
- 2. "Wise Men and Learned in Their Law"
- 3. "The Rules of Their Laws and Customs"
- 4. "More Honorable Than All Others"
- Epilogue The Preservation of English Law
- Establishing the Text of the Author's Treatise
- Leges Edwardi Confessoris/ The Laws of Edward the Confessor
- Appendix: Manuscripts of the Third and Fourth Versions
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- General Index
- Index Verborum