"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."—from the Forewo

"A Germanic lawbook compiled by the Burgundian kings Gundobad and Sigismund in the last quarter of the fifth century and the first quarter of the sixth."--forew

Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdoms. They pr

Here presented for the first time in English are the law codes of the Lombard kings who ruled Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries. The documents afford