Title in English: Development of the English law between the 7th and 10th century on the example of the oldest Anglo-Saxon codes taking into account legal development in Danelaw Abstract in English This diploma thesis aims to describe the development of law in England between the 7th and 10th century, i.e. in the so-called Anglo-Saxon period of English history. During this period, especially in the 9th and 10th century, both the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and the Scandinavian conquerors came to power alternately. At the same time, this period is characterized by the creation of Legal Codes in the individual kingdoms, by which the kings of the time regulated the most problematic legal issues. In my work, I proceeded chronologically in terms of the law of Anglo-Saxons. Firstly, I made a historical introduction to Anglo-Saxon colonization using primary and secondary sources and provided an explanation of the most important institutions that occurred with minor variations in all Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Subsequently, I focused on individual kingdoms, in which written sources in the form of the original Legal Codes have been preserved. Based on these primary and also secondary sources, I analysed the Codes, where I dealt with the legal institutes contained in them, then I compared the codes with each other and pointed...

Yes / Historical, artefactual and place-name evidence indicates that Scandinavian migrants moved to eastern England in the ninth century AD, settling in the Danelaw. However, only a handful of characteristically Scandinavian burials have been found in the region. One, widely held, explanation is that most of these Scandinavian settlers quickly adopted local Christian burial customs, thus leaving Scandinavians indistinguishable from the Anglo-Saxon population. We undertook osteological and isotopic analysis to investigate the presence of first-generation Scandinavian migrants. Burials from Masham were typical of the later Anglo-Saxon period and included men, women and children. The location and positioning of the four adult burials from Coppergate, however, are unusual for Anglo-Scandinavian York. None of the skeletons revealed interpersonal violence. Isotopic evidence did not suggest a marine component in the diet of either group, but revealed migration on a regional, and possibly an international, scale. Combined strontium and oxygen isotope analysis should be used to investigate further both regional and Scandinavian migration in the later Anglo-Saxon period.