Table of Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I. The Crime of Majesty in Roman Public Law
• II. The Idea of Majesty in Roman Political Thought
• III. The Idea of Fidelity in Germanic Customary Law
• IV. Crimen Laesae Maiestatis in the Lex Romana Wisigothorum
• V. Contractual Allegiance vs. Deferential Allegiance in Visigothic Law
• VI. The Public Law of the Visigothic Code
• VII. Blasphemy in the Lex Romana Curiensis
• VIII. Treason and Related Offenses in the Anglo-Saxon Dooms
• IX. The Public Law of the Ripuarian, Alamannic, and Bavarian Codes
• X. Notes on Public Law: Ostrogothic, Burgundian, Lombard, North German
• XI. Review of Ernst Levy, West Roman Vulgar Law: The Law of Property
• XII. The Literature on Treason in Roman Public Law
• XIII. The Literature on Public Law in Germanic Custom
• Index

About the Author

Floyd Seward Lear was Professor of History at Rice University.