Source: Textual EditionCnut.Laws

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Description

Quoting Whitelock, EHD, p. 454: This code, which is in two parts, an ecclesiatical and a secular, is much the longest of Old English law codes. It is, however, largely made up of extracts from previous kings' legislation plus homiletic matter.

Source Information
Author King Cnut / Archbishop Wulfstan
Source Title The Laws of Cnut
Date of composition 1020-1023
Language Old English

Notes

It is now taken as read that the code is largely the product of Archbishop Wulfstan of York.

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Go to The Laws of the Earliest English Kings Attenborough, F.L. The Laws of the Earliest English Kings Cambridge 1922