An Introduction to Early English Law

by Bill Griffiths

The diversity and development of early English law is sampled here with a selection of several law-codes in translation; the laws of Ethelbert of Kent, the first code to be issued in England, the laws of Alfred the Great, and short codes from the reigns of Edmund and Ethelred the Unready.

Genres: History

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Born as Brian William Bransom Griffiths, was a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival.

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