Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84383-877-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 318 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies

The relationship between Anglo-Saxon kingship, law, and the functioning of power is explored via a number of different angles.

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 wereused for propaganda reinforcing heirarchic, but mutually beneficial, kingships; the implications of Ine's lawcode; and the language of legislation when English kings were ruling previously independent territories, and the delegation of local rule. The volume also includes a groundbreaking article by Simon Keynes on Anglo-Saxon charters, looking at the origins of written records, the issuing of royal diplomas and the process, circumstances, performance and function of production of records.

GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester.

Contributors: Ann Williams, Alexander R. Rumble, Carole Hough, Andrew Rabin, Barbara Yorke, Ryan Lavelle, Alaric Trousdale

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen-Crocker, Gale R

Schneider, Brian W

Weitere Mitwirkende

Trousdale, Alaric

Rumble, Alexander R.

Rabin, Andrew

Williams, Ann

Yorke, Barbara

Hough, Carole

Lavelle, Ryan

Keynes, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Ann Williams
Church Councils, Royal Assemblies, and Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas - Simon Keynes
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 Trousdale

Über Autor(innen)

Lavelle, Ryan
RYAN LAVELLE is Professor of Early Medieval History in the Department of History at the University of Winchester.

Rabin, Andrew
Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville.

Owen-Crocker, Gale R
Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester.

Contributors: Ann Williams, Alexander R. Rumble, Carole Hough, Andrew Rabin, Barbara Yorke, Ryan Lavelle, Alaric Trousdale