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Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England

By Robin Fleming

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0511585365, 9780511585364
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34538445 bytes)
Pages
\566
Time added
2020-07-02 15:08:28

Description

Domesday Book contains the most comprehensive, varied and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the Common Law. This book argues that it can--and should--be read as a legal text. Stripped of its statistical information, Domesday Book contains a remarkable amount of legal material, almost all of which stems directly from inquest, testimony, or from the sworn statements. This information, read in context, provides a picture of what the law looked like, the ways in which it was changing, and the means whereby the inquest was a central event in the formation of English law.

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