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The Liber Augustalis: Or, Constitutions of Melfi, Promulgated by the Emperor Frederick II for the Kingdom of Sicily in 1231

James M. Powell

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This first translation of the Liber Augustalis from Latin into a modern language makes one of the most important sources for medieval legal and social history available to a wide audience. These constitutions reveal not merely the warp and woof of the fabric of life in the Kingdom of Sicily but also help us to understand better some of the social and political changes that affected most of Western Europe. ...In reading these laws, we have an opportunity to see, if only dimly, the way in which thirteenth-century lawyers attempted to deal with the problems of their day. We experience some of the pragmatic spirit that was the source of their originality as well as their use of the past as an anchor of security for ideas that were novel. -- from the Preface

Language: English

Pages: 163

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Release: December 31, 1971

ISBN: 0815600801

ISBN 13: 9780815600800

The Liber Augustalis: Or, Constitutions of Melfi, Promulgated by the Emperor Frederick II for the Kingdom of Sicily in 1231

James M. Powell

3.2/5 ( ratings)

This first translation of the Liber Augustalis from Latin into a modern language makes one of the most important sources for medieval legal and social history available to a wide audience. These constitutions reveal not merely the warp and woof of the fabric of life in the Kingdom of Sicily but also help us to understand better some of the social and political changes that affected most of Western Europe. ...In reading these laws, we have an opportunity to see, if only dimly, the way in which thirteenth-century lawyers attempted to deal with the problems of their day. We experience some of the pragmatic spirit that was the source of their originality as well as their use of the past as an anchor of security for ideas that were novel. -- from the Preface

Language: English

Pages: 163

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Release: December 31, 1971

ISBN: 0815600801

ISBN 13: 9780815600800

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