Talk:Germanic law

message: Should this be moved to simply Germanic law? Srnec 01:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Move proposal

message: Why isn't Anglo-Saxon law included among the list of Early Germanic law. It's actually in a Germanic language, rather than Latin, and there's already a Wikipedia article on it: Anglo-Saxon_law 128.187.0.164 01:30, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is Anglo-Saxon law? 

message: First of all the word homosexuality and our modern concept of it did not exist prior to the 1880'th. That is why I use the term "samesex erotisism" below.
The translation of "corpore infames" as "unnatural prostitutes" is an anacronism. The argument of branding samesex erotisism as unnatural was mainly put forward by the christian church, long time after Tacitus.  There is nothing to surgest that Tacitus or the germans about whom he wrote thought of samesex erotisism as either unnatural or "dishonorable". The latter being the correct translation of the latin word "infames."  The sentence "corpore infames" means "those who has dishonored their body." It is placed in a long line of words discribing unwanted behaveour in battle. There is no reason why a sexual practis would suddenly appear in such a context.
The grecco-roman view on samesex erotisism may or may not have been the same amongst the germanic peoples. We don't know. and Taitus text doesn't sayanything about it. The grecco-roman view on samesex erotisism would have been Tacitus background. To him there would have been nothing "unnatural" or "dishonorable" about buggering an other man. And even though the one being buggerd would have been rediculed if he was a real roman he-man there where no laws against it and there is nothing to surgest that Tacitus thought it was a problem.  The assosiation of "corpore infames" with homosexuality is a 19'th century christian prejudice.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.107.12.196 (talk) 11:51, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You can argue your own POV based on original research til the cows come home, but ultimately you're going to need some RSS we can attribute such a POV to. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 16:48, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homosexuality 

message: Rouche seems to have a political agenda maligning the oral judges system, in favor of a more rationalistic constructivist one.  If you look at the analogous lawspeaker article for medieval scandinavian law there seems to be no indication that these people were viewed as unpredictably terrifying or overly subjective.  The quotes should be removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.24.134.170 (talk) 16:21, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rouche quotes 

message: Someone here has misunderstood the use of the progressive tenses in English. Wegesrand (talk) 09:31, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs native copy-editing 

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message: Possibly useful--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 09:49, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potentially useful sources 

message: you've done some work on Germanic law. Any interest in helping here? Also, I agree with your question way back when. This article should be at Germanic law. I'm not aware of any scholarship that calls it "Early".--Ermenrich (talk) 16:04, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll see if I can help. Srnec (talk) 03:59, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried moving the article today and was unable to. Do you suppose we can ask an admin such as  or should we start a move request?--Ermenrich (talk) 14:10, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Done!--Berig (talk) 14:19, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: Suggestion 196.21.236.5 (talk) 12:13, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germatic tribes and legal development 

message: I think that this section needs drastic trimming and rewriting with more recent sources. I'm not even sure we need to summarize the Leges at all. Each of them have their own page, after all.--Ermenrich (talk) 13:43, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on the individual Leges 

message: Things that should probably be discussed here in some capacity:
#the ordeal
#kingship
#clan
#retinue?
#freedom/slavery?
#peace/feud?
#oath
#the "tribe/gens"
# "personality of law"
I bring these things up not because scholarship necessarily believes they are "Germanic" nowadays, but because they have historically been assumed to be Germanic and some readers might expect them here. Their "Germanicness" would be a subject of the section.
What else? I wonder if a brief section on the Scandinavian laws wouldn't be in order as well.--Ermenrich (talk) 15:28, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further topics to add here