Neue Forschungen zum angelsachsischen Recht')
- Autores: Daniela Fruscione
- Localización: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Germanistische Abteilung, ISSN 0323-4045, Nº 133, 2016, págs. 474-483
- Idioma: alemán
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Resumen
New research on Anglo-Saxon law. The article reviews five works connected to Anglo-Saxon legislation in different fields of research. The material for Volume Il of Wormald's opus magnum existed in various stages of development when Wormald died in 2004 and it is a miscellaneous collection of papers and lectures, partly delivered at the University of Oxford by the author. Roach is connected to the teachings of Wormald as a historian of kingship; challenging old models, Roach focuses with comparative eyes on the role of assemblies in Anglo-Saxon England as an essential feature of kingship. An "unaccustomed point of view" on early English law is also he Id by JurasinkilFalk who offer the 1" complete edition of Theodor's canons and by Jurasinski's work on those penitentials which gave advice on matters of secular law.ln doing this he discovers not only that the scribes who translated them from Latin recasted them into new rules intended to better suit the needs of English laypeople, hut also how wrong it is to as sume that only kings participated in the creation of Anglo-Saxon legal culture. A review of works on early English legislation cannot avoid the question of language of the legal sources.
They were mostIy written in the Anglo-Saxon vemacular rather than in Latin like the continentalleges.
Hough brings together historical and linguistic evidence and explores various aspects ofthe legal system of Anglo-Saxon England, focusing particularly on the interpretation oflaws on the position ofwomen in society. - Keywords: Early Middle Ages, Anglo-Saxon Legislation, Kingship, Penitentials, Women
