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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- God's Peace and King's Peace: The Laws of Edward the Confessor
- Publication Date
- 1999-01-15
- Pages
- 328
- ISBN
- 9780812234619
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Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been spoken to William shortly after the Conquest by "English nobles who were wise men and learned in their law," recounting "the rules of their laws and customs" for the invading Norman king. When they had finished, the king wondered whether it might not be better for all of them to live under the law of his Viking ancestors; the English, however, protested that they preferred to live by their own preconquest laws. The king acquiesced, and thus, goes the story, were the laws of King Edward the Confessor authorized. Looking through the lens of this important--if spurious--treatise, God's Peace and King's Peace offers the first ground-level view of English law during the century in which the common law was born. Bruce R. O'Brien compares the Leges Edwardi to other memorials of legal policy and practice from before and after 1066, in both Normandy and England, and advances conclusions about the treatises' reliability on specific points of law. He also shows how the Laws of Edward the Confessor , taken as a record of English law at the conquest, came to be used as authoritative evidence behind the Magna Carta that the king was under the law, and how it was eventually declared a notorious forgery by seventeenth-century antiquaries and Enlightenment historians.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812234618
ISBN-13
9780812234619
eBay Product ID (ePID)
637374
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
God's Peace and King's Peace : the Laws of Edward the Confessor
Publication Year
1999
Subject
Legal History, Europe / Medieval
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, History
Series
The Middle Ages Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-024540
Illustrated
Yes
Lc Classification Number
Kd544.O25 1999
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