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Description: | Irish law has a long tradition in the middle ages, a body formed from native and church law. Much of it has to do with social rank, especially the upper ranks, which included not only kings and warriors but also the poets. This late medieval law manuscript on privileged classes is said to have been copied by Matha O Luinin, a member of a renowned scribal family of County Fermanagh. It was made for Aimirgin who presented it to Morann Mac Main, a judge.
The book begins with a declaration of the need for a true knowledge of the law and speaks of two main divisions of society: the free and the servile. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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