The Dooms of Ethelred (978-1016 A.D.) The thirty-eight year reign of Ethelred II is the first for which we have contemporary manuscripts containing the … More Emergence of the Common Law, the Anglo-Saxon Dooms, 601-1020 AD: The Dooms of the Kingdom of Wessex, Part 3 »
In 725, the Kingdom of Kent lost its predominance in Anglo-Saxon England and the center of power moved to the Kingdom of Wessex. The … More Emergence of the Common Law, The Anglo-Saxon Dooms, 601-1020 AD, Part 2: Dooms of the Kingdom of Wessex »
This post is by Frances Murray, former librarian of the New York Court of Appeals and expert on legal history. This is the first … More Emergence of the Common Law, The Anglo-Saxon Dooms, 601-1020 AD, Part 1: Dooms of the Kingdom of Kent »
