In Book II, Chapter 5 of the Historia ecclesiastica, Bede writes that the Kentish king Æthelberht had, ‘with the advice of his counsellors, established legal enactments according to the examples of the Romans.’ This article argues that Bede’s formulation serves as a means of characterizing the increasingly interventionist role played by early Kentish kings in making the laws issued in their names.

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贝德、埃塞尔伯特和中世纪早期英格兰的“罗马人的例子”

在《教会史》第二卷第五章中，贝德写道，肯特国王埃塞尔伯特“根据他的顾问的建议，根据罗马人的例子制定了法律”。本文认为，贝德的表述可以用来描述早期肯特郡国王在制定以他们的名义颁布的法律时所扮演的日益干预主义的角色。