Sure, but that was pre-Christian. If you say so. The point, though, is still indisputable that the Church, long after the Empire snuffed out, carried along this idea of a written code to the tribes of Europe.
Often times, the Church had to devise the first written instances of a language they met. They did this in order to have written agreements, contracts, etc.
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Actually, the first written laws of
England were contained in the
Domesday Book transcribed by the order of William the Conquerer in 1085. Latin was the only written language in use in England for a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire. The
Magna Carta, which is generally recognized as the document first recognizing the modern concept of individual liberty was also written in Latin, in 1215.
Great drinking songs, however, have always been written in German.