The Origins of the European Legal Order Book

List of abbreviations;

1. The early Middle Ages: a comparative approach;
2. A historical and institutional profile of the Roman empire in the fourth and fifth centuries;
3. Excursus I: 'barbarians';
4. Historical and institutional profiles of the 'new dominations';
5. Excursus II: the days of the week;
6. Excursus III: Anglo-Saxon charters;
7. Consensus by assembly;
8. Excursus IV: authority and consensus in judicial decisions;
9. Public allegiance;
10. Excursus V: the Anglo-Saxon writ;
11. Private allegiance;
12. Open legal systems;
13. Excursus VI: textual 'coincidences' in documentary forms; Chronology of popes and sovereigns; Appendix of sources; Bibliography; Index.