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The Laws of the Earliest English Kings Edited and F. L. Attenborough

The Laws of the Earliest English Kings By Edited and  F. L. Attenborough

The Laws of the Earliest English Kings by Edited and F. L. Attenborough


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Frederick Levi Attenborough (1887-1973) published this work in 1922 for social and legal historians who did not require the full critical apparatus and contextual material previously provided in German by Felix Lieberman. The book covers the early Anglo-Saxon laws from Aethelbert to Aethelstan, with a facing-page modern English translation.

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The Laws of the Earliest English Kings by Edited and F. L. Attenborough

Frederick Levi Attenborough (1887-1973) studied at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Emmanuel College between 1920 and 1925. He later became the Principal of University College, Leicester. In 1922 Cambridge University Press published his edition of the early Anglo-Saxon laws, with a facing-page modern English translation. A few years earlier, Felix Lieberman had published his monumental three-volume Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, which is still the definitive specialist edition of the laws (as Attenborough rightly predicted), and which is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Attenborough explains that his work is for social and legal historians who do not read German, or do not require the full critical apparatus and contextual material provided by Lieberman. Attenborough's book covers the laws from Aethelbert to Aethelstan; in 1925 Cambridge published a continuation by Agnes Robertson, The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I, which is also available.

Table of Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; The Kentish laws; The laws of Ine and of Alfred; Treaties with the Danes; The laws of Edward the Elder and of Aethelstan; Appendix; Notes; Index.

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NLS9781108084840
9781108084840
1108084842
The Laws of the Earliest English Kings by Edited and F. L. Attenborough
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2015-04-30
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