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By applying the techniques of linguistic anthropology to the pre-history of medicine, anatomical knowledge, and law, Lisi Oliver has produced a remarkable study that sheds new light on early Germanic conceptions of the body in terms of medical value, physiological function, psychological worth, and social significance."--Pub. desc. "The sixth to ninth centuries saw a flowering of written laws among the early Germanic tribes. These laws include tables of fines for personal injury, designed to offer a legal, non-violent alternative to blood feud. Using these personal injury tariffs, The Body Legal in Barbarian Law examines a variety of issues, including the interrelationships between victims, perpetrators, and their families; the causes and results of wounds inflicted in daily life; the methods, successes, and failures of healing techniques; the processes of individual redress or public litigation; and the native and borrowed developments in the various 'barbarian' territories as they separated from the Roman Empire.

Personal injuries --- Human body --- Law, Germanic --- Germanic law --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Injuries (Law) --- Liability for personal injuries --- Accident law --- Employers' liability --- Torts --- History --- Law and legislation --- Germanien --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Germania

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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.

Law, Anglo-Saxon. --- Law --- Criminal law --- Civil law --- Law, Medieval. --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- English manuscripts, Old --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscripts, Old English --- Old English manuscripts --- Medieval law --- Law, Civil --- Private law --- Roman law --- Crime --- Crimes and misdemeanors --- Criminals --- Law, Criminal --- Penal codes --- Penal law --- Pleas of the crown --- Public law --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal procedure --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Anglo-Saxon law --- History --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Alfred, --- Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge). --- Law, Anglo-Saxon

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Indo-European philology --- Indo-Europeans --- Poetics --- Philologie indo-européenne --- Indo-Européens --- Poétique

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