The Old English Penitentials and Anglo-Saxon Law

by Stefan Jurasinski

Some of the earliest examples of medieval canon law are penitentials - texts enumerating the sins a confessor might encounter among laypeople or other clergy and suggesting means of reconciliation. Often they gave advice on matters of secular law as well, offering judgments on the proper way to contract a marriage or on the treatment of slaves. This book argues that their importance to more general legal-historical questions, long suspected by historians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107083419
• ISBN13: 9781107083417
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"