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    Volume 1: Containing the Secular Laws
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2012
    22 March 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139177405
    9781108045148
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139177405
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    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.15kg, 800 Pages
    • Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, History, Regional History Before 1500, British History Before 1066
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, History, Regional History Before 1500, British History Before 1066
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
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    Originally published for the Record Commissioners in 1840, this two-volume work remains a standard source for scholars of Anglo-Saxon and early Norman legal history. Benjamin Thorpe (1781?–1870) was a respected and prolific scholar and translator of Old English, whose publications in the field earned him a civil list pension in 1835. Trained in Copenhagen under Rasmus Rask, Thorpe advocated a scientific approach to philology, and this is reflected in the thoroughness of the notes, commentary, and concordance appended to the sources reprinted here. The preface to the text places the laws in their historical and geographical context, notes where there are unavoidable gaps in the evidence, and offers a descriptive analysis of the original documents. Volume 1 contains the secular laws issued from the reign of Æthelberht to that of Henry I, with a parallel translation of the Anglo-Saxon text, although the sources in Latin and French remain untranslated.

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