Law codes and legal norms in later Anglo-Saxon England
Levi Roach
This article seeks to provide a fresh perspective on long-standing debates about the role of written word in later Anglo-Saxon legal culture. Using law codes King AEthelstan's reign as ‘case study’, it argues that many unusual features early English are not so much products orality, fundamentally different approach norms than is prevalent modern Western world. It thus move beyond recent literacy-orality debates, suggesting more profitable investigate attitudes shown towards (both and oral) within society.
Historical Research