The Beginnings of English Law by Lisi Oliver PAPERBACK 9781442614833

The Beginnings of English Law\nby Lisi Oliver\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Lisi Oliver\nTitle: The Beginnings of English Law\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Legal history\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2012\nISBN-13: 9781442614833\nISBN-10: 1442614838\nRRP: \u00A333.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe laws of \u00C6thelbert of Kent (ca. 600), Hlohere and Eadric (685x686), and Wihtred (695), are the earliest laws from Anglo-Saxon England, and the first Germanic laws written in the vernacular. They are of unique importance as the only extant early medieval English laws that delineate the progress of law and legal language in the early days of the conversion to Christianity. \u00C6thelbert''s laws, the closest existing equivalent to German.