A raven's battle-cry : the limits of judgment in the medieval Irish legal tract Anfuigell / by Charlene M. Eska.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

xii, 337 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Medieval law and its practice ; v. 27.

Charlene M. Eska presents a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished medieval Irish legal tract 'Anfuigell'. Although the Old Irish text itself is fragmentary, the copious accompanying commentaries provide a wealth of legal, historical, and linguistic information not found elsewhere in the medieval Irish legal corpus. 'Anfuigell' contains a wide range of topics relating to the role of the judge in deciding difficult cases, including kingship, raiding, poets, shipwreck, marriage, fosterage, divorce, and contracts relating to land and livestock.

Translated from the Irish, Old (to 1100).
Charlene M. Eska presents a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished medieval Irish legal tract 'Anfuigell'. Although the Old Irish text itself is fragmentary, the copious accompanying commentaries provide a wealth of legal, historical, and linguistic information not found elsewhere in the medieval Irish legal corpus. 'Anfuigell' contains a wide range of topics relating to the role of the judge in deciding difficult cases, including kingship, raiding, poets, shipwreck, marriage, fosterage, divorce, and contracts relating to land and livestock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online version: Eska, Charlene M., author. Raven's battle-cry Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2019

KDK145 .E83 2019

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