The Saxon mirror. A sachsenspiegel of the fourteenth century

by Maria Dobozy, trans

$60 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, 1 , 263, 3 ; full black cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. The Sachsenspiegel, or Saxon Mirror, compiled in 1235 by Eike von Repgow, may be said to mark the beginning of vernacular German jurisprudence. For the first time, Maria Dobozy offers and English translation of this influential lawbook, the oldest and most important set of customary laws in the German language. Item #70669

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