'Ge mid wedde ge mid aðe': the functions of oath and pledge in Anglo-Saxon legal culture.

This article analyses the Old English terms for 'pledge-giving' within the context of Anglo-Saxon law codes and related material such as charters and wills by means of a contextual analysis of the occurrences of such terms. It argues for the centrality of the concept to Anglo- Saxon legal interactio...

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Publicado en:	Historical Research Vol. 86; no. 233; pp. 515 - 536
Autor principal:	Ammon, Matthias
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Aug2013
Materias:	Pledges (Law) Anglo-Saxon law Contracts History of contracts Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, d. 1023 Legal history Medieval law British history sources Anglo-Saxon Period, Great Britain, 449-1066 Historical source material United Kingdom
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Sumario:	This article analyses the Old English terms for 'pledge-giving' within the context of Anglo-Saxon law codes and related material such as charters and wills by means of a contextual analysis of the occurrences of such terms. It argues for the centrality of the concept to Anglo- Saxon legal interaction as the means by which agreements, in particular between individuals, were made binding and shows that this had linguistic consequences by tracing the development of the collocation að and wedd ('oath and pledge') into a formulaic word pair.