Franks
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Frankish · Frankish chiefs · Mayors of the Palace · Merovingian line · Salian Franks · the Franks · the men of letters of the Franks · the people of the West · ادباء الافرنج · الافرنج
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
And notwithstanding the Franks' occupation with transferring learning from the Arabic books in the eleventh and twelfth centuries of the Nativity, and their mingling with the Muslims in Cordova and Toledo and elsewhere, they remained ignorant of the spelling of the Prophet's name, writing it now Mophomet, now Bophomet, and now Bafon;
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Ancient Law
Germanic people whose kings were styled 'Kings of the Franks' rather than rulers of a territory, illustrating tribe-sovereignty.
Part of Transalpine Gaul, with part of Germany, had now become the country de facto occupied by the Franks—it was France;
The exclusion of females and their children from governmental functions, commonly attributed to the usage of the Salian Franks, has certainly an agnatic origin, being descended from the ancient German rule of succession to allodial property.
The Franks are particularly mentioned as not having the Roman institution, and accordingly the old French lawyers, even when most busily engaged in filling the interstices of barbarous custom with rules of Roman law, were obliged to protect themselves against the intrusion of the Potestas by the express maxim, Puyssance de père en France n’a lieu.
The Rights of War and Peace
The ancient Franks, cited as practitioners of single combat to settle disputes.
Nearly related to the last named method is that of single combat, a practice recommended under the idea that by the risque of two lives a quarrel might be decided, which would otherwise have cost the blood of thousands.
At the same time a conqueror will take care that erroneous opinions do not prevail to the prejudice and overthrow of true religion, as was done by Constantine upon his crushing the party of Licinius, and afterwards by the Franks and other kings.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The European men of letters, named with the old Arabic term al-Afranj, whose turn to naturalistic explanation the author holds responsible for the totemist reading of Arabia.
for the spread of this doctrine in the middle of that century brought the men of letters of the Franks to refer everything back to natural causes, as Spencer did in referring the forms of worship and most of the usages to causes of this kind.
And notwithstanding the Franks' occupation with transferring learning from the Arabic books in the eleventh and twelfth centuries of the Nativity, and their mingling with the Muslims in Cordova and Toledo and elsewhere, they remained ignorant of the spelling of the Prophet's name, writing it now Mophomet, now Bophomet, and now Bafon;
the word Nation in the Frankish languages means ummah, and is derived from a verb in Latin meaning «to be born».
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Germanic people named alongside the Lombards and Saxons as jealous of judicial authority.
“The Franks, Lombards, and Saxons seem alike to have been jealous of judicial authority;
The Genius of the Common Law
Germanic people whose double ax is said to be represented by the horned staves used in trial by battle.
the ‘horned staves’ — representing, it seems, the Frankish double ax — resound on the targets;