Edited and translated by F. L. Attenborough.
This edition first published 1922. This digitally printed version 2015.
Frederick Levi Attenborough (1887–1973) studied at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Emmanuel College between 1920 and 1925. He later became the Principal of University College, Leicester. In 1922 Cambridge University Press published his edition of the early Anglo-Saxon laws, with a facing-page modern English translation. A few years earlier, Felix Lieberman had published his monumental three-volume "Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen", which is still the definitive specialist edition of the laws (as Attenborough rightly predicted), and which is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Attenborough explains that his work is for social and legal historians who do not read German, or do not require the full critical apparatus and contextual material provided by Lieberman. Attenborough's book covers the laws from Aethelbert to Aethelstan; in 1925 Cambridge published a continuation by Agnes Robertson, "The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I", which is also available.
Author(s): Frederick Levi Attenborough (ed., transl.)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection. Medieval History
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: XVI+256
PREFACE v
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi
THE KENTISH LAWS 1
Introduction 2
The Laws of Æthelberht 4
The Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric 18
The Laws of Wihtred 24
THE LAWS OF INE AND OF ALFRED 33
Introduction 34
The Laws of Ine 36
The Laws of Alfred 62
TREATIES WITH THE DANES 95
Introduction 96
The Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum 98
The Laws of Edward and Guthrum 102
THE LAWS OF EDWARD THE ELDER AND OF ÆTHELSTAN 111
Introduction 112
The Laws of Edward (I) 114
(II) 118
The Laws of Æthelstan (I) 122
The Ordinance relating to Charities 126
The Laws of Æthelstan (II) 126
(III) 142
(IV) 146
(V) 152
(VI) 156
APPENDIX I. (Of Incendiaries and those who secretly compass Death) 170
APPENDIX II. (Decree concerning Hot Iron and Water) 170
NOTES:
To the Kentish Laws 175
To the Laws of Ine 183
To the Laws of Alfred 193
To the Treaties with the Danes 201
To the Laws of Edward 204
To the Laws of Æthelstan 206
INDEX 217
