Rethinking the Leges Henrici Primi

Karn, Nicholas (2010) Rethinking the Leges Henrici Primi. Rabin, Andrew, Jurasinski, Stefan and Oliver, Lisi (eds.) In English Law before Magna Carta: Felix Liebermann and Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Brill..

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This essay demonstrates that the Leges Henrici Primi, the most important legal text surviving from early twelfth-century England, has been comprehensively misunderstood because modern readers have been misled by the considerable interpolations in the text. The essay exposes the interpolations and shows how the text should be understood as a tract on the hundred court; moreover, it argues that its author should now be identified as an anonymous hundred bailiff.

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Published date: 2010

Venue - Dates: Early English Laws Conference, London, United Kingdom, 2008-07-01 - 2008-07-01

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Organisations: History, Humanities

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Local EPrints ID: 79944

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/79944

ISBN: 9789004187566

PURE UUID: 6ccefb10-5d59-4115-87df-40d80e08ea11

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Date deposited: 22 Mar 2010

Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 00:34

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Author: Nicholas Karn

Editor: Andrew Rabin

Editor: Stefan Jurasinski

Editor: Lisi Oliver

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