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Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been spoken to William shortly after the Conquest by English nobles who were wise men and learned in their law, recounting the rules of their laws and customs for the invading Norman king. When they had finished, the king wondered whether it might not be better for all of them to live under the law of his Viking ancestors; the English, however, protested that they preferred to live by their own preconquest laws. The king acquiesced, and thus, goes the story, were the laws of King Edward the Confessor authorized.
Looking through the lens of this important—if spurious—treatise, God''s Peace and King''s Peace offers the first ground-level view of English law during the centu

Gods Peace and Kings Peace

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 15 January 1999
      ISBN-13 9780812234619
      978-0812234619
      ISBN-10 0812234618

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been spoken to William shortly after the Conquest by English nobles who were wise men and learned in their law, recounting the rules of their laws and customs for the invading Norman king. When they had finished, the king wondered whether it might not be better for all of them to live under the law of his Viking ancestors; the English, however, protested that they preferred to live by their own preconquest laws. The king acquiesced, and thus, goes the story, were the laws of King Edward the Confessor authorized.
      Looking through the lens of this important—if spurious—treatise, God''s Peace and King''s Peace offers the first ground-level view of English law during the centu

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