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Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
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Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
Series: Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
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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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