Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)

The relationship between Anglo-Saxon kingship, law, and the functioning of power is explored via a number of different angles. The essays collected here focus on how Anglo-Saxon royal authority was expressed and disseminated, through laws, delegation, relationships between monarch and Church, and between monarchs at times of multiple kingships and changing power ratios. Specific topics include the importance of kings in consolidating the English "nation"; the development of witnesses as agents of the king's authority; the posthumous power of monarchs; how ceremonial occasions wereused for propaganda reinforcing heirarchic, but mutually beneficial, kingships; the implications of Ine's lawcode; and the language of legislation when English kings were ruling previously independent territories, and the delegation of local rule. The volume also includes a groundbreaking article by Simon Keynes on Anglo-Saxon charters, looking at the origins of written records, the issuing of royal diplomas and the process, circumstances, performance and function of production of records. GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Ann Williams, Alexander R. Rumble, Carole Hough, Andrew Rabin, Barbara Yorke, Ryan Lavelle, Alaric Trousdale

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Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Gale R. Owen-Crocker • Brian W. Schneider
Contributors:	Alaric Trousdale • Alexander R. Rumble • Andrew Rabin (Contributor) • Ann Williams • Barbara Yorke • Carole Hough • Ryan Lavelle • Simon Keynes
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	318
ISBN-13:	978-1-84383-877-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Promotions
LSN:	1-84383-877-X
Barcode:	9781843838777

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