Routledge Medieval Translations
Magnus the Lawmender’s Laws of the Land
1st Edition
By Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
August 29, 2025
The first English translation of Magnus the Lawmender’s law code, this book allows students and scholars to interpret, compare and add their perspectives to this crucial source to European legal history. The Laws of the Land are one of the very few law books issued in the Middle Ages which ...
Saint Benedict, Montecassino, and the Crisis of Ninth-Century Southern Lombards in Early Medieval Cassinese Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Luigi Andrea Berto
May 30, 2025
The dissolution of the Lombard political unity in southern Italy and the Muslim military activities in that area rendered the ninth century a crucial, yet troubled period for the history of this part of the Italian peninsula. The abbey of Montecassino was deeply affected by those events as well. ...
The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fatḥ al-Andalus
1st Edition
Edited
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
March 11, 2025
The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fatḥ al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fatḥ al-Andalus (“The Conquest of al-Andalus”), which covers the history of Muslim Spain from the time of the initial conquest in 711 CE until...
The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops: A Critical Edition and Translation of the ‘Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum’
1st Edition
Edited
By Luigi Andrea Berto
December 18, 2024
In the early Middle Ages Naples underwent huge changes. She was able to acquire complete independence from the Byzantine Empire and to emerge as one of the major powers in southern Italy. Moreover, Naples avoided becoming part of the Frankish Empire, being subdued by the Lombards of southern Italy,...
The Dala Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Inger Larsson
November 15, 2024
The Dala Law is known through only one remaining medieval manuscript, written c.1335 – 1353, and shows strong influence from older Swedish provincial law. It is one of the oldest known texts revealing details of life and conditions in medieval Dalar during the thirteenth and early fourteenth ...
The Story of Attila in Prose: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Estoire d’Atile en prose
1st Edition
By Roberto Pesce, Logan E. Whalen
May 31, 2023
The Story of Attila in Prose is the first critical edition and translation of the thirteenth century Franco-Italian prose text the Estoire d’Atile en prose. Preserved in two anonymous and untitled manuscripts composed between the last quarter of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the ...
The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of ‘Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium’
1st Edition
Edited
By Luigi Andrea Berto
January 09, 2023
This volume presents the analysis, English translation, and critical edition of the Latin text of The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento, thus offering an important contribution for a better understanding of early medieval southern Italian (and Mediterranean) history. In the 840s, having ...
The Older Gulathing Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Erik Simensen
January 09, 2023
The Gulathing Law regulates relations between the social classes, the king and his officers, the clergy, and the peasantry. Parts of the law appear to be a social contract between two parties: on the one hand the people, on the other hand the church and the king. This new edition, in modern ...
The Västgöta Laws
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Lindkvist
January 09, 2023
The Västgöta Laws contains the translation of the oldest of the Swedish provincial law codes and other texts of great relevance to the legal history. The first version, the Older Västgöta Law, is from the first half of the thirteenth century and the earliest example of an indigenous vernacular ...
The Borgarthing Law and the Eidsivathing Law: The Laws of Eastern Norway
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Collinson, Torgeir Landro, Bertil Nilsson
August 01, 2022
The Borgarthing Law and the Eidsivathing Law is dedicated to two closely linked medieval laws which were intended to cover adjacent legal provinces in eastern Norway, around and beyond the modern capital, Oslo. The core of this book consists of new translations of the two laws, based on the recent ...