The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments
"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."—from the Foreword, by Edward Peters

From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a developed and a tribal society.

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The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments
"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."—from the Foreword, by Edward Peters

From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a developed and a tribal society.

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The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments

The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments

The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments

The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments

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"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."—from the Foreword, by Edward Peters

From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a developed and a tribal society.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812210354
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date: 01/01/1972
Series: The Middle Ages Series
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 9.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Katherine Fischer Drew is Lynette S. Autrey Professor of History Emerita at Rice Universityand is translator of The Lombard Laws, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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