Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521528467)

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.

Author: Robin Fleming
ISBN-10: 0521528461
ISBN-13: 9780521528467
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2003
Pages: 572
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.22lbs
Size: 9.74h x 7.46w x 1.20d