The Burgundian Code
Title | The Burgundian Code PDF eBook |
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Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 2010-11-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812201787 |
"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."—from the Foreword, by Edward Peters From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a developed and a tribal society.
The Burgundian Code
Title | The Burgundian Code PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Fischer Drew |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1949 |
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The Burgundian Code
Title | The Burgundian Code PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Burgundy (France) |
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The Burgundian Code: Liber Constittionum Sive Lex Gundobada; Constitutiones Extravagantes
Title | The Burgundian Code: Liber Constittionum Sive Lex Gundobada; Constitutiones Extravagantes PDF eBook |
Author | Lex Burgundionum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Law, Burgundian |
ISBN |
˜Theœ Burgundian Code
Title | ˜Theœ Burgundian Code PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1949 |
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The Burgundian Code. Liber Constitutionum Sive Lex Gundobada. Constitutiones Extravagantes. Translated by Katherine Fischer
Title | The Burgundian Code. Liber Constitutionum Sive Lex Gundobada. Constitutiones Extravagantes. Translated by Katherine Fischer PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine FISCHER |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1949 |
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The Laws of the Salian Franks
Title | The Laws of the Salian Franks PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2012-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812200500 |
Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called the Salic law) at approximately the same time that the Visigoths and Burgundians produced theirs, but the Frankish code is the least Romanized and most Germanic of the three. Unlike Roman law, this code does not emphasize marriage and the family, inheritance, gifts, and contracts; rather, Lex Salica is largely devoted to establishing fixed monetary or other penalties for a wide variety of damaging acts such as "killing women and children," "striking a man on the head so that the brain shows," or "skinning a dead horse without the consent of its owner." An important resource for students and scholars of medieval and legal history, made available once again in Katherine Fischer Drew's expert translation, the code contains much information on Frankish judicial procedure. Drew has here rendered into readable English the Pactus Legis Salicae, generally believed to have been issued by the Frankish King Clovis in the early sixth century and modified by his sons and grandson, Childbert I, Chlotar I, and Chilperic I. In addition, she provides a translation of the Lex Salica Karolina, the code as corrected and reissued some three centuries later by Charlemagne.