{"product_id":"the-laws-of-the-salian-franks-9780812213225","title":"The Laws of the Salian Franks","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They produced a legal code (which they called the Salic law) at approximately the same time that the Visigoths and Burgundians produced theirs, but the Frankish code is the least Romanized and most Germanic of the three. Unlike Roman law, this code does not emphasize marriage and the family, inheritance, gifts, and contracts; rather, \u003ci\u003eLex Salica\u003c\/i\u003e is largely devoted to establishing fixed monetary or other penalties for a wide variety of damaging acts such as \"killing women and children,\" \"striking a man on the head so that the brain shows,\" or \"skinning a dead horse without the consent of its owner.\" An important resource for students and scholars of medieval and legal history, made available once again in Katherine Fischer Drew's expert translation, the code contains much information on Frankish judicial procedure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrew has here rendered into readable English the \u003ci\u003ePactus Legis Salicae\u003c\/i\u003e, generally believed to have been issued by the Frankish King Clovis in the early sixth century and modified by his sons and grandson, Childbert I, Chlotar I, and Chilperic I. In addition, she provides a translation of the \u003ci\u003eLex Salica Karolina\u003c\/i\u003e, the code as corrected and reissued some three centuries later by Charlemagne.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Katherine Fischer Drew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48189777805563,"sku":"9780812213225","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_d4563703-53c8-4840-9132-006f174a865f.jpg?v=1770663268","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-laws-of-the-salian-franks-9780812213225","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}