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urgundian and gothic law 287<br />

claim their role as legislators for their own peoples when their kingdoms<br />

lay in the more Romanized south: they, much more than Franks and<br />

Anglo-Saxons, needed to assert a political independence <strong>of</strong> the empire;<br />

and, in the legal sphere, they asserted that independence by opposing a<br />

king’s law for his gens to the law <strong>of</strong> an empire.<br />

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