Languages of the Law in Early Medieval England

Essays in Memory of Lisi Oliver

edited by A. Rabin and S. Jurasinski

Book cover: Languages of the Law in Early Medieval England

Extent: 331 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Law, Medieval Studies

Series: Mediaevalia Groningana

Series volume number: 22

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2019)

ISBN: 9789042939790

Price: $103.00

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(September 2019)

ISBN: 9789042939806

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As broad in scope as the interests of its honoree, this volume brings together leading historians of early English and continental law to pay tribute to Lisi Oliver. The essays gathered here range from the earliest laws of the kings of Kent in the seventh century to the reception of Old English law in the seventeenth. Interested both in how law was made and the ways in which it was applied, the contributors explore the careers of such prominent legislators as Alfred the Great and Wulfstan of York while also examining issues of gender, social status and textual transmission. This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of law, the legal culture of Anglo-Saxon England, and the emergence of modern concepts of self and statehood in the early Middle Ages.


As broad in scope as the interests of its honoree, this volume brings together leading historians of early English and continental law to pay tribute to Lisi Oliver. The essays gathered here range from the earliest laws of the kings of Kent in the seventh century to the reception of Old English law in the seventeenth. Interested both in how law was made and the ways in which it was applied, the contributors explore the careers of such prominent legislators as Alfred the Great and Wulfstan of York while also examining issues of gender, social status and textual transmission. This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of law, the legal culture of Anglo-Saxon England, and the emergence of modern concepts of self and statehood in the early middle ages.

  • Edited by S Jurasinski
  • Edited by A Rabin