The Lombard Laws
Katherine Fischer Drew (transl.)
Translated with an Introduction by Katherine Fischer Drew. Foreword by Edward Peters.
The Lombard Laws — the laws of Rothair and Grimwald, Liutprand, Ratchis, and Aistulf — are an extraordinarily important source of information about a people whose contribution to medieval civilization is just beginning to be understood.
The contributions of Rome and the Church have been well charted from surviving records. But Germanic society was a society based upon customary law and obligation, fundamentally illiterate, and our knowledge of it must be largely secondhand. A few rare exceptions, such as the law codes promulgated by the Lombard kings who ruled northern Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries, have survived.
The Lombard Laws — the laws of Rothair and Grimwald, Liutprand, Ratchis, and Aistulf — are an extraordinarily important source of information about a people whose contribution to medieval civilization is just beginning to be understood.
The contributions of Rome and the Church have been well charted from surviving records. But Germanic society was a society based upon customary law and obligation, fundamentally illiterate, and our knowledge of it must be largely secondhand. A few rare exceptions, such as the law codes promulgated by the Lombard kings who ruled northern Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries, have survived.
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Год:
1996
Издание:
5th Paperback Printing
Издательство:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Язык:
english
ISBN 10:
0812210557
ISBN 13:
9780812210552
Серия:
Middle Ages Series
Файл:
PDF, 13.60 MB
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english, 1996