Williams Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England c.500–1066

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-349-27454-3
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: British History in Perspective

This book is a study of the exercise of royal authority before the Norman Conquest. Six centuries separate the 'adventus Saxonum' from the battle of Hastings: during those long years, the English kings changed from warlords, who exacted submission by force, into law-givers to whom obedience was a moral duty. In the process, they created many of the administrative institutes which continued to serve their successors. They also created England: the united kingdom of the English people.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, A.

Williams, Ann

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Abbreviations.- Chronology.- Genealogical Tables.- Through a Glass Darkly: The Origins of English Kingship.- The Time of the Warlords.- The Shadow of Mercia.- Strategies of Power.- All the King's Men.- Out of the North: The Impact of the Vikings.- The Making of England.- Rule and Conflict, 978-1066.- The Ill-Counselled King.- The Danish Conquest.- Authority and Ambition, 1042-66.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

ANN WILLIAMS is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia.