This article is about the mediaeval law book. For the German television news series, see Sachsenspiegel (German television news series).
Choosing the king. Top: the three ecclesiastical princes choosing the king, pointing at him. Middle: the Count Palatine of the Rhine hands over a golden bowl, acting as a servant. Behind him, the Duke of Saxony with his marshall's staff and the Margrave of Brandenburg bringing a bowl of warm water, as a valet. Below, the new king in front of the great men of the empire (Heidelberg Sachsenspiegel, around 1300)Page in Sachsenspiegel about succession (Heidelberg edition)
The Sachsenspiegel (German:[ˈzaksn̩ˌʃpiːɡl̩]ⓘ; Middle Low German: Sassen Speyghel; modern Low German: Sassenspegel; all literally "Saxon Mirror") is one of the most important law books and custumals compiled during the Holy Roman Empire. Originating between 1220 and 1235 as a record of existing local traditional customary laws and rulings, it was used in places until as late as 1900. Some legal principles as captured in the book reign into recent time laws throughout Europe. It is important not only for its lasting effect on later German and Dutch law but also as an early example of written prose in a Low German language.[1] The Sachsenspiegel is the first comprehensive law book not in Latin, but in Middle Low German. A Latin edition is known to have existed, but only fragmented chapters remain.
^Dieter Pötschke (2002). "Utgetogen Recht steiht hir. Brandenburgische Stadt- und Landrechte im Mittelalter". In Dieter Pötschke (ed.). Stadtrecht, Roland und Pranger: zur Rechtsgeschichte von Halberstadt, Goslar, Bremen und Städten der Mark Brandenburg [Stadtrecht, Roland und Pranger: zur Rechtsgeschichte von Halberstadt, Goslar, Bremen und Städten der Mark Brandenburg]. Harz-Forschungen (in German). Vol. 15. Lukas. p. 135. ISBN 3-931836-77-0. Mit dem Sachsenspiegel] schuf Eike von Repchow nicht nur eines der ersten deutschen Rechtsbücher neben dem Mühlhäuser Rechtsbuch nach des Reiches Recht, sondern das erste deutsche Prosawerk überhaupt.
The Sachsenspiegel (German: [ˈzaksn̩ˌʃpiːɡl̩] ; Middle Low German: Sassen Speyghel; modern Low German: Sassenspegel; all literally "Saxon Mirror") is one...
1180 – c. 1233) was a medieval German administrator who compiled the Sachsenspiegel code of law in the 13th century. Little is known about Eike of Repgow...
punishment" for highwaymen and street thieves, and was set out in the Sachsenspiegel for murder, and arson that resulted in fatalities. Those convicted as...
are shaven, but the hair is surely short. The clearest proof are the Sachsenspiegel illustrations - all Wends in the illustrations (in contrast with the...
Middle Ages and has been documented in writing since about 1225/34 (Sachsenspiegel). During the Hanseatic period (from about 1300 to about 1600), Middle...
courtly romances such as Parzival and Tristan. Also noteworthy is the Sachsenspiegel, the first book of laws written in Middle Low German (c. 1220). The...
murder of a minor and the subsequent paying of wergild, in Heidelberger Sachsenspiegel Cgm 165 fol. 11r. This is one of the only images of wergild payment...
latent tension between the traditional regional laws and Roman law. The Sachsenspiegel of 1230 recognizes the judicial duel as an important function to establish...
1220 and 1230, a Saxon administrator, Eike von Repgow, composed the Sachsenspiegel, which became the supreme law used in parts of Germany as late as 1900...
society, as captured in the feudal law element of the Sachsenspiegel by Eike von Repgow. The Sachsenspiegel, the Saxon law book, portrays the society of the...
Depiction of a judicial combat in the Dresden codex of the Sachsenspiegel (early to mid-14th century), illustrating the provision that the two combatants...
needed] Written in Middle High German, it draws on the early 13th century Sachsenspiegel, and is immediately dependent on the Deutschenspiegel [de] code.[citation...
Angliae for England, the Coutume de Paris for the city of Paris, the Sachsenspiegel for northern Germany, and the many fueros of Spain. In international...
Judicial combat with sword and shield depicted in the Dresden ms. of the Sachsenspiegel, 14th century. Melee combat between knights on horseback (troops of...
Klenkok (Klenke) (d. 1374), author of the Decadicon, an attack on the Sachsenspiegel. Simon of Cremona (d. 1390), a well-known preacher. Johann Hiltalinger...
Annolied Jans der Enikel's Weltchronik and Fürstenbuch Kaiserchronik Law Sachsenspiegel High German consonant shift Matthias Lexer Keller 1978, p. 236. Lindgren...
Rügerin, an edition of Eike of Repgow's compendium of customary law, the Sachsenspiegel, produced in Augsburg. 1485 – The play Elckerlijc wins first prize in...
of Repgow codified it as an emanation of feudal law recorded in his Sachsenspiegel, where the lay princes formed the third level or Heerschild in the feudal...
whether such a system even lasted into the High Middle Ages with the Sachsenspiegel. Traditionally, the Leges have been understood as only applying to one...
Harz a restricted imperial forest or Reichsbannwald. The Saxon Mirror (Sachsenspiegel), the oldest German law book (Rechtsbuch), probably published around...
the conflict about the Sachsenspiegel law book he handed the Decadicon - a written attack by Johannes Klenkok on the Sachsenspiegel - to Pope Gregory XI...
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