This work provides a full-length account of the Old English law-codes. It offers enlightenment on particular legal manuscripts or texts and a coherent account of how the corpus of Old English law from the 7th to the 12th century came to subsist and survive.[...]
Patrick Wormald was a brilliant interpreter of the Early Middle Ages, whose teaching, writings and generous friendship inspired a generation of historians and students of politics, law, language, literature and religion to focus their attention upon the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks. Lead[...]