Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen
Herausgegeben im Auftrage der Savigny-Stiftung

Published between 1903 and 1916, this authoritative three-volume edition of Anglo-Saxon laws features a facing translation into modern German.

Felix Lieberman (Edited and translated by)

9781108083638, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2015

776 pages
29.7 x 21 x 3.9 cm, 1.8 kg

This edition of the laws promulgated by successive Anglo-Saxon rulers over a period of five centuries was published in three volumes between 1903 and 1916 by the German historian Felix Lieberman (1851–1925), and is still regarded as authoritative. This unique body of early medieval legal writing, unparalleled in other Germanic languages, provides valuable source material for scholars of Old English and of legal history, and Lieberman's thorough engagement with the manuscripts has never been surpassed. Volume 2 contains a dictionary of the Old English, Latin and French words found in the texts in Volume 1. The dictionary is presented in one alphabetical sequence, and is followed by a German glossary of legal terms listing references in the texts, other medieval works and later scholarship. Frederick Attenborough's The Laws of the Early English Kings (1922), providing a modern English translation of early Anglo-Saxon laws, is also reissued in this series.

Wörterbuch
Rechts- und Sachglossar.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]