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The Laws of the Salian Franks (The Middle Ages Series)
Katherine Fisc Drew
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Description for The Laws of the Salian Franks (The Middle Ages Series)
Paperback. "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 Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812213225
SKU
V9780812213225
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About Katherine Fisc Drew
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.
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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