In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the
intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon
England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property
through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex
range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a
number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and
practical - such as political dominion, salvation, sanctity,
status, and social and spiritual obligations.
Land and Book places a variety of texts - including charters,
dispute records, heroic poetry, homilies, and the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle - in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and
documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to
innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English.
Through this, Smith provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of
literary, legal, and historical interests.
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