Kingship, legislation and power in Anglo-Saxon England /

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 con...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
Other Authors: Owen-Crocker, Gale R. (Editor), Schneider, Brian W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2013.
Series:Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies ; v. 13.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction / Ann Williams
  • Part I. Church Councils, Royal Assemblies, and Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas, Appendix I: Meeting-places of Royal Assemblies in Anglo-Saxon England (900-1066), Appendix II: Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas on Single Sheets (925-75), Appendix III: Citations of Anglo-Saxon Charters / Simon Keynes
  • Part II. Anglo-Saxon Royal Archives: their Nature, Extent, Survival and Loss / Alexander R. Rumble
  • Naming and Royal Authority in Anglo-Saxon Law / Carole Hough
  • Witnessing Kingship: Royal Power and the Legal Subject in the Old English Laws / Andrew Rabin
  • The Burial of Kings in Anglo-Saxon England / Barbara Yorke
  • Ine 70.1 and Royal Provision in Anglo-Saxon Wessex / Ryan Lavelle
  • Being Everywhere at Once: Delegation and Royal Authority in Late Anglo-Saxon England / Alaric A. Trousdale
  • Index.