 ... The laws of the Lombard kings, Liutprand (712-744) and Ratchis (744-9), "show how chaotic was still (the italics are ours) the social condition of their subjects " (Hodgkin, viii. 280). From their whole code another author (Hist, of Europe during...  Europe During the Middle Ages ... - Page 17by Samuel Astley Dunham - 1833Full view - About this book
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1900 - 552 lehte
...Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders, 2nd ed. vi. (B. vii.), 579-93 ; vii. (B. viii.), 384, 385. code of laws was "less favourable to social happiness than almost any other, the Visigothic, perhaps, alone exceptcd ; " and (p. 19) that the Lombards, wherever they could, " destroyed the [free] municipal institutions,... | |
 | Horace Kinder Mann - 1902 - 458 lehte
...whole code another author (Hist, of Europe during the Middle Ages, i. 17, ed. Cabinet Encyc.) notes : "We may infer that it was less favourable to social...any other, the Visigothic ,perhaps, alone excepted." withered before them. Cities were depopulated, strong places thrown down, churches burnt, monasteries... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1912 - 510 lehte
...flight of Italians from Longobard tyranny. He admits further (p. 17) that the Longobard code of laws was " less favourable to social happiness than almost...any other, the Visigothic, perhaps, alone excepted"; and (p. 19) that the Longobards, wherever they could, " destroyed the [free] municipal institutions... | |
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