Originally published for the Record Commissioners in 1840, this
two-volume work remains a standard source for scholars of
Anglo-Saxon and early Norman legal history. Benjamin Thorpe
(1781?-1870) was a respected and prolific scholar and translator of
Old English, whose publications in the field earned him a civil
list pension in 1835. Trained in Copenhagen under Rasmus Rask,
Thorpe advocated a scientific approach to philology, and this is
reflected in the thoroughness of the notes, commentary, and
concordance appended to the sources reprinted here. The preface to
the text places the laws in their historical and geographical
context, notes where there are unavoidable gaps in the evidence,
and offers a descriptive analysis of the original documents. There
is a parallel translation of the Anglo-Saxon text, although the
original sources in Latin and Norman French remain untranslated.
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