First Works to Appear
The first texts to be published will be those of Felix Liebermann’s Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen (Halle, 1903–16) and William Stubbs’ Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History, rev. H. W. C. Davis, 9th edn (Oxford, 1921). These editions are still cited as standard editions for most of the texts that will eventually be published on Early English Laws. The editions will be digitized and marked up to link them to new editions.
The next set of texts to be published will be those which have already been judged to be of sufficient centrality to warrant print publication and translation. Editors and publishers of all recent editions of texts that will be part of the Early English Laws collection have been given permission to allow their work to be republished as part of the project. These works include:
Lisi Oliver: the early Kentish codes appearing in her The Beginnings of English Law (Toronto, 2002). These texts are the laws of Æthelberht (Abt), Wihtred (Wi), Hlothere and Eadric (Hl).
David Bates: all legislative writs and charters of William I from his The Acta of William I, 1066–1087 (Oxford, 1998). These include William I’s writ for London (Wl Lond), Willelmes cyninges asetnysse (Wl lad), and William I’s writ on church courts (Wl ep).
Bruce O’Brien: Laws of Edward the Confessor, Version 2 (ECf2), published in his God’s Peace and King’s Peace: The Laws of Edward the Confessor (Philadelphia, 1999).
Alan Kennedy: the first code of Cnut (Cn 1018), published in ‘Cnut’s law code of 1018’, Anglo-Saxon England 11 (1983), pp. 72–81.