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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 272
Utgivningsdatum: 1991-03-01
Förlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
Översättare: Katherine Fischer Drew
Originalspråk: Latin
Medarbetare: Drew, Katherine Fischer (ed. & transl.)
Illustratör/Fotograf: colour illustrations
Illustrationer: colour illustrations
Dimensioner: 226 x 152 x 15 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: Paperback
ISBN: 9780812213225

The Laws of the Salian Franks

Häftad, Engelska, 1991-03-01

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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.

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"Makes easily available to legal historians and medievalists alike an important source for social and political no less than legal history."American Journal of Legal History

Katherine Fischer Drew is Lynette S. Autrey Professor of History Emerita at Rice University and is translator of both The Lombard Laws and The Burgundian Code, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.