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English Law Before Magna Carta Medieval Law and Its Practice Managing Editor John Hudson (St Andrews) Editorial Board Members Paul Brand (All Souls College, Oxford) Dirk Heirbaut (Ghent) Richard Helmholz (Chicago) Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, London) Magnus Ryan (Cambridge) Stephen White (Emory) VOLUME 8 English Law Before Magna Carta Felix Liebermann and Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen Edited by Stefan Jurasinski, Lisi Oliver and Andrew Rabin LEIDEN • BOSTON 2010 On the cover: Frontispiece to Texte und Forschungen zur englischen Kulturgeschichte. Festgabe für Felix Liebermann zum 20. Juli 1921. Edited by Heinrich Boehmer et al. (Halle: M. Niemeyer, 1921) This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data English law before Magna Carta : Felix Liebermann and Die gesetze der angelsachsen / edited by Stefan Jurasinski, Lisi Oliver, and Andrew Rabin. p. cm. — (Medieval law and its practice ; v. 8) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-18756-6 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Law, Anglo-Saxon. 2. Law—England—History. 3. Magna Carta. 4. Gesetze der Angelsachsen. 5. Liebermann, F. (Felix), 1851–1925. I. Jurasinski, Stefan. II. Oliver, Lisi. III. Rabin, Andrew. IV. Title. V. Series. KD554.E54 2010 349.42—dc22 2010027359 ISSN 1873-8176 ISBN 978 90 04 18756 6 Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Brill has made all reasonable efforts to trace all rights holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyrights holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. CONTENTS Preface ................................................................................................. xi Lisi Oliver Abbreviations ..................................................................................... xiii 1. Felix Liebermann and Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen .............. 1 Andrew Rabin 2. Felix Liebermann: A Selected Bibliography .............................. 9 Daniela Fruscione SECTION ONE FELIX LIEBERMANN 3. Liebermann’s Intellectual Milieu ................................................ 15 Daniela Fruscione 4. The Liebermann Library in Tokyo ............................................. 27 Hideyuki Arimitsu SECTION TWO LANGUAGE AND DATING 5. L1 Interference in the Editing Process: Felix Liebermann, the Gesetze and the German Language ..................................... 43 Jürg Rainer Schwyter 6. Localizing and Dating Old English Anonymous Prose, and How the Inherent Problems Relate to Anglo-Saxon Legislation ....................................................................................... 59 Robert D. Fulk 7. The Dating of Quadripartitus Again .......................................... 81 Richard Sharpe viii contents SECTION THREE ANGLO-SAXON TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS 8. The Old English Penitentials and the Law of Slavery ........... 97 Stefan Jurasinski 9. I Æthelred in Felix Liebermann’s Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen and in the Mise-en Page of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 383 ....................................................... 119 Thom Gobbitt 10. I–II Cnut: Wulfstan’s Summa? ................................................. 137 Mary P. Richards 11. Royal Protections and Private Justice: A Reassessment of Cnut’s ‘Reserved Pleas’ ............................................................... 157 T. B. Lambert 12. Ritual Magic or Legal Performance? Reconsidering an Old English Charm Against Theft .................................................... 177 Andrew Rabin SECTION FOUR BEYOND ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 13. Rethinking the Leges Henrici Primi ......................................... 199 Nicholas Karn 14. From the Leges to Glanvill: Legal Expertise and Legal Reasoning ..................................................................................... 221 John Hudson 15. Laurence Nowell’s Old English Legal Glossary and His Study of Quadripartitus ......................................................................... 251 Rebecca Brackmann contents ix 16. “St. Edward’s Ghost”: The Cult of St. Edward and His Laws in English History ....................................................................... 273 Janelle Greenberg Bibliography ........................................................................................ 301 Contributors ....................................................................................... 319 Index Legum ....................................................................................... 323 Index Manuscriptorum ..................................................................... 325 Index Nominorum ............................................................................ 326
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