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)

9781108083645, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2015

366 pages
29.7 x 21 x 1.9 cm, 0.9 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 3 provides introductions to each set of laws presented in Volume 1, and detailed line-by-line explanatory notes that complement the dictionary and glossary of terms found in Volume 2. 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.

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Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]