Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wolf, Joe

Titel

A Raven's Battle-Cry: The Limits of Judgment in the Medieval Irish Legal Tract Anfuigell. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xiv + 338. $119.00 hardcover (ISBN 9789004391987 )

Ist Teil von

• Law and History Review, 2020, Vol.38 (2), p.497-498

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Some provisions in Anfuigell are strikingly familiar, such as the statement in §9 that pledges made under fear or duress lack legal validity, or §34, which states that a person is not liable for injuring an attacker in self-defense. Other sections illustrate sociolegal institutions unique to Irish society, such as §21, which details how to resolve property disputes between individuals of different social classes, highlighting Ireland's rigid caste system. [...]most humorously, the validity of the drunken contract is contingent upon the ability of both parties to remember their agreement the next morning!