TY  - JOUR
AU  - William Sayers
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Mediaevistik
IS  - 1
VL  - 36
SN  - 2199-806X
TI  - Charlene M. Eska, Lost and Found in Early Irish Law: Aidbred, Heptad 64, and Muirbretha. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022, xix, 444 pp.
DO  - 10.3726/med.2023.01.72
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1517801
N2  - Early Ireland offers the most substantial body of jurisprudence in a western European medieval vernacular before the twelfth century, yet only a handful of scholars has the competence required to address this challenging corpus of legal evidence in editions, translation, and analysis. Irish law was first codified in the seventh to eighth centuries. Individual legal propositions are succinct, often elliptical, and have stylistic features associated with oral tradition and memorability. Their often monolithic, propositional character lends a desirable 
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