Domesday Book and the Law Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England [#471599]

Robin Fleming, "Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0511585365, 0521528461 | PDF | pages: 566 | 32.9 mb
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.