The Laws of Alfred: The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law by Lisi Oliver

The Laws of Alfred: The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law

Lisi Oliver

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Alfred the Great's domboc ('book of laws') is the longest and most ambitious legal text of the Anglo-Saxon period. Alfred places his own laws, dealing with everything from sanctuary to feuding to the theft of bees, between a lengthy translation of...

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