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Record W4323875539 · doi:10.1017/9781846158148.003

Sunday Observance in Anglo-Saxon England

2010· other· en· W4323875539 on OpenAlex

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Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedieval and Early Modern Justice
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnglo saxonLegislationLegislatureLawHistoryPolitical scienceAncient history

Abstract

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The regulation of Sunday observance in Anglo-Saxon England offers a good example of how the legislative body of a particular people gradually developed a definition of what should be considered ‘illicit work’ on that day. The Anglo-Saxons initially drew on the so-called ‘Germanic’ law codes and later on Carolingian precedent, but there are also significant differences, which indicate that they were reluctant to adopt the detailed proscriptions sometimes seen in continental legislation. Even so, a trend of increasing prohibitions is evident throughout the period. The Early Law Codes The ordinances concerning Sunday activities in Anglo-Saxon England go back at least as far as the late seventh century. The West Saxon King Ine (d. 726) and Kentish King Wihtræd (d. 725) both included edicts forbidding Sunday work in their codes. They are very similar to each other and are most closely related to the Germanic law codes on the Continent, particularly to the Pactus legis Salicae (in this case identical to the Lex Salica ) and the Lex Frisionum , which also list the penalties to be exacted for Sunday work according to the status of the offender. In the Anglo-Saxon laws there are only two categories, slave and freeman, whereas the continental codes differentiate by ethnic or regional grouping. The following is the relevant section in Ine's code: Gif ðeowmon wyrce on Sunnandæg be his hlafordes hæse, sie he frioh, and se hlaford geselle XXX scill. to wite. Gif þonne se ðeowa butan his gewitnesse wyrce, þolie his hyde. Gif ðonne se frigea ðy dæge wyrce butan his hlafordes hæse, ðolie his freotes. Of interest is the acknowledgment, also in Wihtræd's code, that a lord must be held responsible when he has ordered his slave to work on Sunday. Both texts impose a severe penalty for the freeman, either the loss of freedom or healsfang , a fine equivalent to a man's wergeld . Wihtræd's code also offers some interesting differences. The penalties are not the same: whereas Ine's penalty for forcing a slave to work is the slave's freedom and a 30-shilling fine, Wihtræd only stipulates an 80-shilling fine, and a slave who works without his lord's knowledge may pay a fine of 6 shillings instead of receiving a flogging.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.589
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.001

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Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.268 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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