Laws of the Alamans and Bavarians /

Laws of the Alamans and Bavarians / / ed. by Theodore John Rivers.

The survival of Germanic law codes affords us invaluable insight into pre­feudal society. The inviolability of custom and the spontaneity of punishment so characteristic of primitive law served to perpetuate a rigid class structure in which the principal crimes were settled by a monetary recompense...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Rivers, Theodore John,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1978
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Pactus Legis Alamannorum
  • The Alamannic Laws as derived from the Lantfridana Manuscripts
  • The Bavarian Laws as preserved in the Ingolstadt Manuscript
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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