About the Author

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

Reviews

"Places the Lombard laws in their historical context, showing the importance of barbarian codes, the development of the Lombard policy and society in the early Middle Ages, and the use of laws as sources for these topics. . . . The translation is excellent."—Choice