Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England

by Tom Lambert

Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England explores English legal culture and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the essentially pre-Christian laws enshrined in writing by King AEthelberht of Kent in c. 600 and working forward to the Norman Conquest of 1066. It attempts to escape the traditional retrospective assumptions of legal history, focused on the late twelfth-century Common Law, and to establish a new interpretative framework...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019878631X
• ISBN13: 9780198786313
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"