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  • Innovation and Experimentation in Late Seventh-Century Law: the Case of Theodore, Hlothhere, Wihtræd and Ine

  • Ingrid Ivarsen
  • Journal:
    Anglo-Saxon England / Volume 50 / December 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 December 2023, pp. 61-99
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    December 2021
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  • The late seventh century was a particularly active period of legal writing in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: three royal decrees, two church council decrees and a number of royal diplomas have survived. This article aims to show that this unusual period was characterised by innovation and experimentation. A key part of the argument is that the form of Anglo-Saxon royal laws changed from the early to the late seventh century due to influence from the form of church council decrees. Other external influences on royal law are also detected. The article introduces the closely connected group of kings and ecclesiastics who were involved in law-making and it places Anglo-Saxon legal production in a wider context of legal learning, by looking at the kinds of legal texts that were known, studied and used in Anglo-Saxon England and especially by this period’s many travellers and expats.

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  • Edited by William Eves, University of St Andrews, Scotland, John Hudson, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Ingrid Ivarsen, University of Cambridge, Sarah B. White, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book:
    Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
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    01 April 2021
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    15 April 2021, pp v-vi
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  • Index

  • Edited by William Eves, University of St Andrews, Scotland, John Hudson, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Ingrid Ivarsen, University of Cambridge, Sarah B. White, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book:
    Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
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    01 April 2021
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    15 April 2021, pp 323-338
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  • Contributors

  • Edited by William Eves, University of St Andrews, Scotland, John Hudson, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Ingrid Ivarsen, University of Cambridge, Sarah B. White, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book:
    Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
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    15 April 2021, pp vii-viii
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  • Acknowledgments

  • Edited by William Eves, University of St Andrews, Scotland, John Hudson, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Ingrid Ivarsen, University of Cambridge, Sarah B. White, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book:
    Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
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    01 April 2021
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    15 April 2021, pp ix-x
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  • Edited by William Eves, University of St Andrews, Scotland, John Hudson, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Ingrid Ivarsen, University of Cambridge, Sarah B. White, University of St Andrews, Scotland
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    Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
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    01 April 2021
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    15 April 2021, pp iv-iv
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Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
  • Essays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries
  • Edited by William Eves, John Hudson, Ingrid Ivarsen, Sarah B. White
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    01 April 2021
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    15 April 2021
  • Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays derived from papers delivered at the 24th British Legal History Conference. These essays explore patterns in legal norms, processes, and practice across an exceptionally broad chronological and geographical range. Carefully selected to provide a network of inter-connections, they contribute to our better understanding of legal history by combining depth of analysis with historical contextualization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.