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Author:   Lukas Bothe ,  Stefan Esders ,  Han Nijdam
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   31
Weight:   0.692kg
ISBN:  

9789004315105

ISBN 10:   9004315101
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   16 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Contributors 1 Wergild and the Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution  Stefan Esders 2 Observations Concerning the ‘Wergild System’: Explanatory Approaches, Effectiveness and Structural Deficits  Harald Siems 3 Monetary Fines, Penalties and Compensations in Late Antiquity  Ralph W. Mathisen 4 Wergeld: The Germanic Terminology of Compositio and Its Implementation in the Early Middle Ages  Wolfgang Haubrichs 5 Wergild, Mund and Manbot in Early Anglo-Saxon Law  Lisi Oliver 6 Compensation, Honour and Idealism in the Laws of Æthelberht  Tom Lambert 7 Wergild and Honour: Using the Case of Frisia to Build a Model  Han Nijdam 8 Triplice Weregeldum: Social and Functional Status in the Lex Ribuaria  Lukas Bothe 9 Penance and Satisfaction: Conflict Settlement and Penitential Practices in the Frankish World in the Early Middle Ages  Rob Meens 10 The Limits of Government: Wergilds and Legal Reforms under Charlemagne  Karl Ubl 11 Wergild in the Carolingian Formula Collections  Warren Brown 12 The Kin’s Collective Responsibility for the Payment of Man’s Compensation in Medieval Denmark  Helle Vogt 13 Concluding Thoughts from England and the ‘Western Legal Tradition’  Paul Hyams Index

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'My dominant response to this collection was pleasure and gratitude: pleasure because the articles are without exception wonderful; gratitude because it is about time someone published a collection like this. For our understanding of medieval law has changed dramatically in the last two generations, yet when it comes to wergild, most of us still operate with assumptions that go back to the nineteenth century.' Geoffrey Koziol in The Medieval Review, 22.03.16. See the full review here.

Author Information

Lukas Bothe is a research associate at Freie Universität, Berlin. His research focuses on the Lex Ribuaria and the functionality of monetary fines. Stefan Esders is professor of late antique and early medieval history at Freie Universität, Berlin. His research interests include early medieval law and legislation, the impact of Roman law in the post-Roman era and medieval legal pluralism. Han Nijdam is project leader for Old Frisian at the Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden. He writes on medieval Frisian law and historical anthropology of medieval Frisia.

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