Author: Jay Paul GatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Rhetorical Construction of Kingship in Late Anglo-Saxon Legal Documents and the Rise of Cnut's Anglo-Scandanavian Empire
Author: Jay Paul Gates"An Ald Reht"
Author: Carole HoughPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443859176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This volume brings together thirteen essays on aspects of the legal system of Anglo-Saxon England. They represent a programme of research carried out over the last twenty years, offering important insights into the operation of English law from its beginnings in the sixth century through to its preservation in manuscripts dating from the tenth to early twelfth centuries. Part I begins with an overview of the legal corpus, followed by a discussion of the relationship between secular and ecclesiastical law, and an examination of seventh-century legislation as evidence for the status of women. Part II presents revisionist interpretations of individual laws from the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Kent and Wessex, and Part III focuses on the manuscript evidence. The collection will be of interest to Anglo-Saxon historians, linguists and palaeographers, as well as to academics and postgraduate students in the wider fields of medieval studies and the history of English law.
Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Thomas Benedict LambertPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019878631X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
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.
Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law
Author: Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law
Author: Henry AdamsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385492017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Saxon and Medieval Antecedents of the English Common Law
Author: Kurt von S. KynellPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773478732
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to legal history, utilizing law, linguistics, cultural anthropology and social history to document and analyze the slow but steady growth of the English common law from Anglo-Saxon times to the 19th century.
Essays in Anglo-Saxon law
Author: Anglo-Saxon lawThe Laws of the Earliest English Kings
Author: Great BritainPublisher: AMS Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
English and Norse Documents
Author: Margaret AshdownPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxon chronicle
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Catherine A. M. ClarkePublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 1843843196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Explores how power is shaped and negotiated in later Anglo-Saxon texts, focusing on how hierarchical, vertical structures are presented alongside patterns of reciprocity and economies of mutual obligation, especially within the context of secular, spiritual, literal or symbolic patronage relationships.