Alfred the Great’s Prologue to the Domboc&The First Ten Laws of Alfred’s Seventy-Seven Laws
Footnotes from Foundations in Liberty.
1
Christopher Collins, “Alfred’s Doombook: The Anglo-Saxon Foundations of Magna Carta,” Alabama Law, The University of Alabama, library.law.ua.edu.
2
The version used in this book was translated by Jay Gates in The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe, Issue 18 (2018), jemne.org.
3
Michael Treschow, “The Prologue to Alfred’s Law Code: Instruction in the Spirit of Mercy,” Florigelum 13 (1994): 82, academia.edu.
4
Alfred’s laws were published in an edition and translation by F. L. Attenborough in The Laws of the Earliest English Kings (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), but he made the unfortunate decision to omit Alfred’s prologue. The version used in this book is credited to both F. L. Attenborough in The Laws of the Earliest English Kings and Jay Gates in The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe, Issue 18 (2018), jemne.org.
5
The Avalon Project, “Anglo-Saxon Law—Extracts From Early Laws of the English,” Yale Law School, avalon.law.yale.edu.
6
F. L. Attenborough, The Laws of the Earliest English Kings (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), 35. Emphasis added.
7
Collins, “Alfred’s Doombook.”
8
Benjamin Merkle, The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great (Moscow, ID: Thomas Nelson, 2009), 200.
9
Rights of justice: equality under the law
10
Beginning on page 71.
11
MS 173: The Parker Chronicle, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, parker.stanford.edu.
12
The legal obligation of compensation as a result of injury or death