Crime and punishment in Anglo-Saxon England

by Rabin, Andrew

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Title Statements

Full title :Crime and punishment in Anglo-Saxon England / Andrew Rabin.

Summary

Arguably, more legal texts survive from pre-Conquest England than from any other early medieval European community. The corpus includes roughly seventy royal law-codes, to which can be added well over a thousand charters, writs, and wills, as well as numerous political tracts, formularies, rituals, and homilies derived from legal sources. These texts offer valuable insight into early English concepts of royal authority and political identity. They reveal both the capacities and limits of the king's regulatory power, and in so doing, provide crucial evidence for the process by which disparate kingdoms gradually merged to become a unified English state. More broadly, pre-Norman legal texts shed light on the various ways in which cultural norms were established, enforced, and, in many cases, challenged. And perhaps most importantly, they provide unparalleled insight into the experiences of Anglo-Saxon England's diverse inhabitants, both those who enforced the law and those subject to it.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108943109, 1108943101
oclc:on1192471287
LC Classification:KD554
Dewey Decimal:349.4209021

Subjects

Anglo-Saxons -- Kings and rulers Anglo-Saxons -- Rois et souverains Droit anglo-saxon England History Justice, Administration of Justice, Administration of -- History -… Law, Anglo-Saxon To 1500