TY - BOOK ID - 85899413 TI - The laws of Alfred : The Domboc and the making of Anglo-Saxon law AU - Jurasinski, Stefan AU - Oliver, Lisi PY - 2021 SN - 110888170X 9781108897891 1108897894 9781108881708 9781108840903 9781108744379 1108840906 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law, Anglo-Saxon. KW - Law KW - Criminal law KW - Civil law KW - Law, Medieval. KW - Manuscripts, English (Old) KW - Anglo-Saxon manuscripts KW - English manuscripts, Old KW - Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon KW - Manuscripts, Old English KW - Old English manuscripts KW - Medieval law KW - Law, Civil KW - Private law KW - Roman law KW - Crime KW - Crimes and misdemeanors KW - Criminals KW - Law, Criminal KW - Penal codes KW - Penal law KW - Pleas of the crown KW - Public law KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminal procedure KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - Anglo-Saxon law KW - History KW - History. KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Alfred, KW - Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge). KW - Law, Anglo-Saxon UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85899413 AB - Alfred the Great's domboc ('book of laws') is the longest and most ambitious legal text of the Anglo-Saxon period. Alfred places his own laws, dealing with everything from sanctuary to feuding to the theft of bees, between a lengthy translation of legal passages from the Bible and the legislation of the West-Saxon King Ine (r. 688-726), which rival his own in length and scope. This book is the first critical edition of the domboc published in over a century, as well as a new translation. Five introductory chapters offer fresh insights into the laws of Alfred and Ine, considering their backgrounds, their relationship to early medieval legal culture, their manuscript evidence and their reception in later centuries. Rather than a haphazard accumulation of ordinances, the domboc is shown to issue from deep reflection on the nature of law itself, whose effects would permanently alter the development of early English legislation. ER -