The Laws of the Salian Franks

The Laws of the Salian Franks
Title The Laws of the Salian Franks PDF eBook
Author Katherine Fischer Drew
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 272
Release 1991
Genre History
ISBN 9780812213225

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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.

The Laws of the Salian Franks

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

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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.

The Laws of the Salian Franks

The Laws of the Salian Franks
Title The Laws of the Salian Franks PDF eBook
Author Katherine Fischer Drew
Publisher
Pages 280
Release 1991
Genre History
ISBN

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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.

Laws of the Salian and Ripuarian Franks

Laws of the Salian and Ripuarian Franks
Title Laws of the Salian and Ripuarian Franks PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 282
Release 1986
Genre Law, Frankish
ISBN

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Law and Language in the Middle Ages

Law and Language in the Middle Ages
Title Law and Language in the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 318
Release 2018-07-10
Genre History
ISBN 9004375767

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Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how the language of law legitimates power.

The Common Law

The Common Law
Title The Common Law PDF eBook
Author Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher
Pages 448
Release 1909
Genre Common law
ISBN

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The Lombard Laws

The Lombard Laws
Title The Lombard Laws PDF eBook
Author
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 305
Release 2010-11-24
Genre History
ISBN 0812200853

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Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries. The documents afford unparalleled insight into the structure and values of Germanic society.