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Project:Bibliography/Early Irish law/Guides

From CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies
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General and various

Polity, people and law

  • The túath
    • external relations
    • outsiders
  • Rural character
  • Rank and status
    • dependant status
    • unfree status (dóer)
  • The kin-group (fine)
    • maternal kin (máithre)

Law of persons (1)

  • king
  • lord and client
    • clientship; base client; free client; fuidir (semi-freeman); bothach; senchléithe
  • briugu (hospitaller)

Law of persons (2)

  • cleric
  • poet
    • female poet; illegal satirist
  • lawyer
    • brithem; aigne
  • physician
  • druid
  • manufacturers
    • wright; blacksmith; other

Law of persons (3)

  • woman
  • child
  • slave
  • captive (cimbid)

Property

Offences

Law texts

  • Comparative aspects
    • early Irish law and narrative
    • early Irish law and canon law
    • early Irish law and medieval Welsh law

Law schools

Glossary

Bibliography

Early Irish law
Guides and introductions

Kelly, Fergus, A guide to early Irish law, Early Irish Law Series, 3, Dublin: DIAS, 1988.
Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.  

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

Articles, book chapters and encyclopedic treatments

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, Early medieval Ireland, 400–1200, Longman History of Ireland, London: Longman, 1995.
Ch. 5: ‘Law, family and community’

State of research

Kelly, Fergus, “Early Irish law: the present state of research”, Études Celtiques 29 (1992): 15–23.  
abstract:
[FR] Le Droit irlandais ancien : état présent des recherches.
L’auteur discute les derniers développements dans l’étude du Droit irlandais ancien, depuis la publication du Corpus Iuris Hibernici de D.A. Binchy, en six volumes, en 1978. Il traite en particulier des objectifs de la collection “Early Irish Law Series”, dont trois volumes sont déjà parus. Il discute aussi des opinions récentes concernant les auteurs des textes de lois.

[EN] Early Irish Law : the present state of research.
The author discusses the developments in the study of Early Irish Law since the publication of D. A. Binchy’s six-volume Corpus Iuris Hibernici in 1978.
He deals in particular with the aims of the Early Irish Law Series, in which three volumes have already been published, and discusses current thinking on the problem of the authorship of the law-texts.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 29, 1992: <link>

Textual sources

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