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Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
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Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
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Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England explores English legal culture
and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the
essentially pre-Christian laws enshrined in writing by King
AEthelberht of Kent in c. 600 and working forward to the Norman
Conquest of 1066. It attempts to escape the traditional
retrospective assumptions of legal history, focused on the late
twelfth-century Common Law, and to establish a new interpretative
framework for the subject, more sensitive to contemporary cultural
assumptions and practical realities. The focus of the volume is on
the maintenance of order: what constituted good order; what forms
of wrongdoing were threatening to it; what roles kings, lords,
communities, and individuals were expected to play in maintaining
it; and how that worked in practice. Its core argument is that the
Anglo-Saxons had a coherent, stable, and enduring legal order that
lacks modern analogies: it was neither state-like nor stateless,
and needs to be understood on its own terms rather than as a
variant or hybrid of these models. Tom Lambert elucidates a
distinctively early medieval understanding of the tension between
the interests of individuals and communities, and a vision of how
that tension ought to be managed that, strikingly, treats strongly
libertarian and communitarian features as complementary.
Potentially violent, honour-focused feuding was an integral aspect
of legitimate legal practice throughout the period, but so too was
fearsome punishment for forms of wrongdoing judged socially
threatening. Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England charts the
development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their
authority to legislate and their ability to influence local
practice, presenting a picture of increasingly ambitious and
effective royal legal innovation that relied more on the
cooperation of local communal assemblies than kings' sparse and
patchy network of administrative officials.
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