Crime and Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 78
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Arguably, more legal texts survive from pre-Conquest England than from any other early medieval European community. The corpus includes roughly seventy royal law-codes, to which can be added well over a thousand charters, writs, and wills, as well as numerous political tracts, formularies, rituals, and homilies derived from legal sources. These texts offer valuable insight into early English concepts of royal authority and political identity. They reveal both the capacities and limits of the king's regulatory power, and in so doing, provide crucial evidence for the process by which disparate kingdoms gradually merged to become a unified English state. More broadly, pre-Norman legal texts shed light on the various ways in which cultural norms were established, enforced, and, in many cases, challenged. And perhaps most importantly, they provide unparalleled insight into the experiences of Anglo-Saxon England's diverse inhabitants, both those who enforced the law and those subject to it.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Crime and Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
Contents
1 Introduction: Defining Law
2 Making Law
2.1 Royal Legislation
2.2 Wills, Charters, and Royal Diplomas
2.3 Ecclesiastical Law
2.4 Custom, Tradition, and Oral Law
3 Breaking Law
3.1 What Constituted an Offense?
3.1.1 Offenses Against Property
3.1.2 Offenses Against Persons
3.1.3 Offenses Against Authority
3.2 Who were the Offenders?
4 Enforcing the Law
4.1 Investigation and Apprehension
4.2 The Trial
4.3 The Sentence
5 Conclusion: Thinking Law
Bibliography
Acknowledgments

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