Lombard law
The Lombard law is one of the most important Germanic people's rights , the basic codification the Edictum Rothari (also Edictus ) Made of 643, by the former after a period of Romanization and Christianization King Rothari the old tribal customary law strengthened, renewed and improved.
The edict expresses the idea of king and people working together in righteousness.
It flows with the complementary laws of the later Lombard kings and with the added under Frankish rule capitularies in the 11th century Liber Papiensis - the law school of Pavia attributed - along whose manuscripts with Liber legis Langobardorum are titled.
literature
- Giulio Vismara : Longobard law . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , Sp. 1701.
- Julius von Ficker : Research on the imperial and legal history of Italy. Four volumes, Innsbruck 1868–74 (reprinted 1961).
Web links
- Publications on Lombard law in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
- Leges Langobardorum at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Leges Langobardorum in the Bibliotheca legum (University of Cologne)
- Longobards and Leges Langobardorum Research project of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
- Leges Langobardorum in the LegIT project ( digital recording and indexing of the vernacular vocabulary of the continental West Germanic Leges barbarorum in a database )