Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen: Herausgegeben im Auftrage der Savigny-Stiftung: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History)

Cambridge University Press, 4/30/2015
EAN 9781108083621, ISBN10: 1108083625

Paperback, 744 pages, 29.7 x 21 x 3.8 cm
Language: German

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. His preface explains that owing to factors such as the extreme variability of Old English orthography, and the existence of both Latin and Old English versions of the same material, a traditional edition using just one base manuscript with a critical apparatus would have been too unwieldy. Volume 1 introduces the manuscripts, and gives several parallel versions of each text in Old English and Latin with a facing translation into modern German. Frederick Attenborough's The Laws of the Early English Kings (1922) is also reissued in this series.

Vorrede
Concordanz mit Schmid's und Thorpe's Ausgaben
Verzeichniss der einzelnen Handschriften
Nachweis, wo und woher jedes Denkmal bisher gedruckt
1. Die Gesetze der Könige der Kentner
2. Das Gesetzbuch der Könige Aelfred–Ine
3. Verträge mit den Dänen in Ostanglien
4. Die Gesetze der Könige Eadweard I, Aethelstan, Eadmund I, Eadgar und Aethelred II
5. Cnut's Erlasse und Gesetzbuch
6. Angelsächsische Gesetze ohne Königsnamen
7. Iudicium Dei, Rituale
8. Excommunicatio
9. Gesetze und Massregeln Wilhelm's I
10. Anglolateinische Rechtsbücher c.1100–c.1150.