Ancient World
Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law
Frederic Seebohm
2026
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Before there was a state, there was a price on every man. Seebohm reconstructs the law of early England from the wergeld upward: what a life cost according to rank, who paid it, and how the kindred rather than the king carried the obligation. Dry as a bone and quietly devastating, it uncovers an England organised by blood ties that the Normans would later paper over.
Inside this audiobook
38 chapters
- 1Preface8m
- 2Chapter 1 (The Currency in Which Wergelds Were Reckoned and Paid) - Part 120m
- 3Chapter 1 (The Currency in Which Wergelds Were Reckoned and Paid) - Part 214m
- 4Chapter 2 (The Summary of the Cymric Evidence) - Part 124m
- 5Chapter 2 (The Summary of the Cymric Evidence) - Part 223m
- 6Chapter 2 (The Summary of the Cymric Evidence) - Part 318m
- 7Chapter 3 (The Evidence of Beowulf on Tribal Custom Regulating Feuds etc.)29m
- 8Chapter 4 (Tribal Custom of the Irish Tribes) - Part 119m
- 9Chapter 4 (Tribal Custom of the Irish Tribes) - Part 228m
- 10Chapter 4 (Tribal Custom of the Irish Tribes) - Part 319m
- 11Chapter 4 (Tribal Custom of the Irish Tribes) - Part 432m
- 12Chapter 5 (The Wergelds of the Burgundian and Wisigothic Laws)17m
- 13Chapter 6 (Tribal Custom of the Franks and of the Tribes Conquered by the Merovingian Kings) - Part 135m
- 14Chapter 6 (Tribal Custom of the Franks and of the Tribes Conquered by the Merovingian Kings) - Part 231m
- 15Chapter 6 (Tribal Custom of the Franks and of the Tribes Conquered by the Merovingian Kings) - Part 332m
- 16Chapter 7 (Tribal Customs of the Tribes Conquered by Charlemagne) - Part 130m
- 17Chapter 7 (Tribal Customs of the Tribes Conquered by Charlemagne) - Part 238m
- 18Chapter 7 (Tribal Customs of the Tribes Conquered by Charlemagne) - Part 326m
- 19Chapter 7 (Tribal Customs of the Tribes Conquered by Charlemagne) - Part 417m
- 20Chapter 8 (The Tribal Customs of the Oldest Scandinavian Laws) - Part 18m
- 21Chapter 8 (The Tribal Customs of the Oldest Scandinavian Laws) - Part 234m
- 22Chapter 8 (The Tribal Customs of the Oldest Scandinavian Laws) - Part 337m
- 23Chapter 8 (The Tribal Customs of the Oldest Scandinavian Laws) - Part 437m
- 24Chapter 9 (Tribal Custom in Scotland) - Part 119m
- 25Chapter 9 (Tribal Custom in Scotland) - Part 232m
- 26Chapter 10 (Anglo-Saxon Custom from the Norman Point of View)41m
- 27Chapter 11 (Danish View of Anglo-Saxon Custom)24m
- 28Chapter 12 (Anglo-Saxon Custom from the Viking or Northmen's Point of View)45m
- 29Chapter 13 (Early Anglo-Saxon Custom) - Part 134m
- 30Chapter 13 (Early Anglo-Saxon Custom) - Part 222m
- 31Chapter 13 (Early Anglo-Saxon Custom) - Part 336m
- 32Chapter 13 (Early Anglo-Saxon Custom) - Part 439m
- 33Chapter 14 (The Laws of the Kentish Kings) - Part 125m
- 34Chapter 14 (The Laws of the Kentish Kings) - Part 242m
- 35Chapter 14 (The Laws of the Kentish Kings) - Part 320m
- 36Chapter 14 (The Laws of the Kentish Kings) - Part 416m
- 37Chapter 15 (General Conclusions) - Part 130m
- 38Chapter 15 (General Conclusions) - Part 234m
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