Laws of the Salian Franks

Name: Laws of the Salian Franks
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ISBN: 9780812213225

ISBN-10: 081221322X

ISBN-13: 9780812213225

Edition: 1991

Authors: Katherine Fischer Drew, Ruth Mazo Karras

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Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called the Salic law) at approximately the same time that the Visigoths and Burgundians produced theirs, but the Frankish code is the least Romanized and most Germanic of the three. Unlike Roman law, this code does not emphasize marriage and the family, inheritance, gifts, and contracts; instead Lex Salica is largely devoted to establishing fixed monetary or other penalties for a wide variety of damaging acts such as "killing women and children," "striking a man on the head so that the brain shows," or…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 3/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

KATHERINE FISCHER DREW is Lynette S. Autry Professor Emeritus of History, Rice University, Houston, TX. Professor Drew is past President of the Medieval Academy and is currently a Fellow. She is the editor of The Lombard Laws, among other works.