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584 COMPTES RENDUS D. H OLWERDA , Exempla philologica , Vier Aufsätze. Chimaira, Groningen, 2000. VIII + 53 p. Few people have a sufficient command of both philology and law to be able to con- tribute something of lasting value to the study of textual criticism on legal texts. One of these is D. Holwerda, emeritus professor of Greek in the University of Groningen, and known to legal historians as one of the editors of the seventeen volumes of Basilica cum scholiis . His main interest has always been with literary and theological texts, but his encounters with Themis have given rise to valuable observations, too. His 80th birthday has been celebrated with a slim volume containing a reprint of four papers, which, to the judgement of their editors, are good illustrations of the philological craftsmanship of their author. Three of these deal with legal texts: Le Code Justinien et sa traduction grecque, La mise en page du texte du Code et de sa traduction κ ÆôJ ðüäÆò (1962); Fehler im Authenticum (originally in Dutch [‘Fouten in het Authenticum’], 1971, transl. S.L. Radt); Rührt der Text von PSI 1350 von Dorotheos her? (1992). The fourth paper lies outside the normal range of interest of the readership of this journal, but has been influential among students of ancient Greek theater: Zur szenisch-technischen Bedeutung des Wortes Õ—ˇ¨¯ÓÉÓ anlässlich einer Bemerkung des Aristophanes von Byzanz zu Eur. Hipp. 171 (1976). An index of passages which have been dealt with in greater detail concludes the volume. Groningen Bernard H. Stolte P. W ORMALD , Legal Culture in the Early Medieval West: Law as Text, Image and Experience. The Hambledon Press, London and Rio Grande [1999]. XXII + 401 p. Les études anglo-saxonnes (dans le sens historique de cette expression!), et en particulier l’histoire du droit de l’époque anglo-saxonne, ont traditionnellement joué un rôle critique dans l’historiographie de l’ “archipel britannique”. Depuis plusieurs années, P. Wormald a fortement contribué à un nouvel essor de cette épopée historiographique. On se réjouira donc que la Hambledon Press ait publié en un recueil plusieurs études de cet auteur consacrées, essentiellement, aux développements du droit en Angleterre avant la conquête normande. Ces études portent tant sur des questions d’histoire externe que sur la pratique et le contexte politique de l’ancien droit anglo-saxon. La liste des articles repris dans ce recueil comprend (la première date de parution est chaque fois indiquée entre parenthèses): Lex Scripta and Verbum Regis : Legislation and Germanic Kingship from Euric to Cnut (1977); Frederic William Maitland and the Earliest English Law (1999); BL Cotton MS Otho B.xi: A Supplementary Note (1996); ‘ Quadripartitus ’ (1994); Laga Eadwardi : The Textus Roffensis and its Context (1995); The Lambarde Problem: Eighty Years On (1997); ‘Inter Cetera Bona Genti Suae’: Law-Making and Peace-Keeping in the Earliest English Kingdoms (1995); In Search of King Offa’s ‘Law-Code’ (1991); Archbishop Wulfstan and the Holiness of Society (1999); A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Lawsuits (1988); Charters, Law and the Settlement of Disputes in Anglo-Saxon England (1986); Lordship and Justice in the Early English Kingdom: Oswaldslow Revisited (1995); Giving God and King their Due: Conflict and its Regulation in the Early English State (1997); Engla Lond : The Making of an Allegiance (1994). Leiden / Louvain-la-Neuve A. Wijffels
The Legal History Review / Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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