The formularies of Angers and Marculf: two Merovingian legal handbooks

"This book offers the first full English translation of two major sources for the Merovingian kingdoms: the formularies of Angers and Marculf (sixth and seventh centuries). These collections of model legal documents, compiled by scribes as an aid to the composition of future documents, constitu...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2008
Schriftenreihe:Translated texts for historians 46
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Zusammenfassung:"This book offers the first full English translation of two major sources for the Merovingian kingdoms: the formularies of Angers and Marculf (sixth and seventh centuries). These collections of model legal documents, compiled by scribes as an aid to the composition of future documents, constitute an important source of evidence on government, legal practice and social life during the Merovingian period, both at the local level (for Angers) and at the level of the kingdom's elite and the entourage of the king (for Marculf). They illuminate aspects of life which would often have been considered too trivial to be worth mentioning in narrative sources, and can include instructions dealing with subjects as diverse as appointing a bishop, making a gift, borrowing money, divorcing, selling an infant child, confiscating property from a rebel, writing Christmas greetings, and settling disputes over murders, thefts or kidnappings."-- Publisher description
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-303) and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 310 p.) ill., map, tabs. 21 cm
ISBN:9781846311598

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