The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments - Paperback

by Katherine Fischer Drew (Editor), Katherine Fischer Drew (Translator), Edward Peters (Foreword by)

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 Foreword, by Edward Peters

From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both. The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a developed and a tribal society.

Author Biography

Katherine Fischer Drew is Lynette S. Autrey Professor of History Emerita at Rice University and is translator of The Lombard Laws, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.