Cain Adomnain, also known as the Lex Innocentium or Law of the Innocents, was a legal code promulgated in 697 CE at the Synod of Birr by Adomnán of Iona, the ninth Abbot of Iona, before an assembly of Gaelic and Pictish notables. It extended earlier protections for monks to cover noncombatants generally, particularly women, children and clergy, during warfare across Ireland and Pictish Scotland, and is often described as an early human rights instrument for its attempt to regulate the conduct of war within the Christian world.
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The Cáin Adomnáin (Old Irish pronunciation: [ˈkaːnʲ ˈaðəβ̃ˌnaːnʲ], KAHN AH-thuv-nahn, "Law of Adomnán"), also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents), was promulgated amongst a gathering of Gaelic and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr in 697.
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The Cáin Adomnáin (Old Irish pronunciation: [ˈkaːnʲ ˈaðəβ̃ˌnaːnʲ], KAHN AH-thuv-nahn, "Law of Adomnán"), also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents), was promulgated amongst a gathering of Gaelic and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr in 697.
- In Group: Brehon Law, lead paragraph identifies the early Irish legal tract
In Legal System: Early Irish law, intro text
also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents), was promulgated amongst a gathering of Gaelic and Pictish notables
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