Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic
people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available
source.--from the Foreword, by Edward Peters
From the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged
a society that was neither Roman nor Burgundian, but a compound of both.
The Burgundian Code offers historians and anthropologists alike
illuminating insights into a crucial period of contact between a
developed and a tribal society.