Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England
(Part of the Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:184383877X
ISBN13:9781843838777
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Boydell Press
Length:318 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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