On the Instituta Cnuti Aliorumque Regum Anglorum

1893 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 77-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Liebermann
Keyword(s):  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Law

The short Latin treatise to which I give the above title claims the attention of all who study the mediaeval history of England, in several respects. It is one of the earliest Latin compilations of English law written by a jurist; it serves to explain some Anglo-Saxon ordinances and to reconstruct their text; it contains the only trace, though hidden under a foreign form, of some Anglo-Saxon legal articles; and it sheds some light on the English constitution about A.D. 1100, especially on the remnants and traditions of an earlier policy.

scholarly journals The Evolution of Criminal Responsibility

1969 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Graham Parker
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
English Law ◽  
Early English

Professor Parker investigates the history of the concept of criminal responsibility with particular reference to homicide. The notion of criminal responsibility is traced through Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law and early English law to recent times. The observations and reports of such commentators as Coke, Hale, Hawkins, Foster and East are treated in an historical-analytical fashion. Because of the historical breadth of the article which encompasses feud and vengeance as well as modern thought on the subject, and because the subject is treated in various socio-political circumstances, valuable perspective on the concept of criminal responsi bility is offered in Professor Parker's presentation.

A History of English Law: Volume XVI

1968 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
pp. 1884
Author(s):  
Gareth H. Jones ◽  
William S. Holdsworth ◽  
Arthur L. Goodhart ◽  
Harold G. Hanbury
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
English Law

The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I

1895 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 364
Author(s):  
J. B. T. ◽  
Frederick Pollock ◽  
Frederic William Maitland
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
English Law ◽  
Edward I

The Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 23-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Dumville
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
British Library ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

This collection of Old English royal records is found in four manuscripts: London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. vi; London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, vol. 1; Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 183; and Rochester, Cathedral Library, A. 3. 5. The present paper aims both to provide an accurate, accessible edition of the texts in the first three of these manuscripts and to discuss the development of the collection from its origin to the stages represented by the extant versions. We owe to Kenneth Sisam most of our knowledge of the history of the Anglo-Saxon genealogies. Although his closely argued discussion remains the basis for any approach to these sources, it lacks the essential aid to comprehension, the texts themselves. It is perhaps this omission, as much as the difficulty of the subject and the undoubted accuracy of many of his conclusions, that has occasioned the neglect from which the texts have suffered in recent years.

BOOK REVIEWS

1941 ◽  
Vol 18 (54) ◽  
pp. 119-121
Keyword(s):  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
History Of

Abstract Book reviewed in this article: ‘Anglo-Saxon Charters.’ Ed. A. J. Robertson. ‘The writings of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln,1235–1253.’ By S. Harrison Thomson. ‘ Bevis Marks Records: Being contributions to the history of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London,’ illustrated by facsimiles of documents. Ed. Lionel D. Barnett. Part I.

From Toleration to Laïcité

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-161
Author(s):  
Gerhardt Stenger ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Political Justification ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
Pierre Bayle ◽  
The Right

This paper traces the history of the philosophical and political justification of religious tolerance from the late 17th century to modern times. In the Anglo-Saxon world, John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) gave birth to the doctrine of the separation of Church and State and to what is now called secularization. In France, Pierre Bayle refuted, in his Philosophical Commentary (1685), the justification of intolerance taken from Saint Augustine. Following him, Voltaire campaigned for tolerance following the Calas affair (1763), and the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) imposed religious freedom which, a century later, resulted in the uniquely French notion of laïcité, which denies religion any supremacy, and any right to organize life in its name. Equality before the law takes precedence over freedom: the fact of being a believer does not give rise to the right to special statutes or to exceptions to the law.

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