Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen Herausgegeben im Auftrage der Savigny-Stiftung [Paperback]

Published between 1903 and 1916, this authoritative three-volume edition of Anglo-Saxon laws features a facing translation into modern German.Published by Felix Lieberman (18511925) between 1903 and 1916, this three-volume edition of laws promulgated by successive Anglo-Saxon rulers is still regarded as authoritative. Unparalleled in other Germanic languages, it is a unique body of early medieval legal writing. The work features a facing translation into modern German.Published by Felix Lieberman (18511925) between 1903 and 1916, this three-volume edition of laws promulgated by successive Anglo-Saxon rulers is still regarded as authoritative. Unparalleled in other Germanic languages, it is a unique body of early medieval legal writing. The work features a facing translation into modern German.This edition of the laws promulgated by successive Anglo-Saxon rulers over a period of five centuries was published in three volumes between 1903 and 1916 by the German historian Felix Lieberman (18511925), and is still regarded as authoritative. This unique body of early medieval legal writing, unparalleled in other Germanic languages, provides valuable source material for scholars of Old English and of legal history, and Lieberman's thorough engagement with the manuscripts has never been surpassed. Volume 2 contains a dictionary of the Old English, Latin and French words found in the texts in Volume 1. The dictionary is presented in one alphabetical sequence, and is followed by a German glossary of legal terms listing references in the texts, other medieval works and later scholarship. Frederick Attenborough's The Laws of the Early English Kings (1922), providing a modern English translation of early Anglo-Saxon laws, is also reissued in this series.W?rterbuch; Rechts- und Sachglossar.