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 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. Volume 1 introduces the manuscripts, and gives several parallel versions in Old English and Latin with a facing translation into modern German. Volume 2 contains a dictionary of Old English, Latin and Old French words, presented in one alphabetical sequence, followed by a German glossary of legal terms listing references found in the laws, other medieval works and later scholarship. Volume 3 provides introductions to each set of laws, and detailed line-by-line explanatory notes.
Published by Felix Lieberman (1851–1925) between 1903 and 1916, this three-volume edition of laws promulgated by successive Anglo-Saxon rulers is still regarded as authoritative. Unparalleled in other Germanic languages, it is a unique body of early medieval legal writing. The work features a facing translation into modern German.
Published between 1903 and 1916, this authoritative three-volume edition of Anglo-Saxon laws features a facing translation into modern German.
