Levi Roach

Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871-978

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an engaging study of how kingship and royal government operated in the late Anglo-Saxon period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781316648520
• ISBN-10: 1316648524
• Artikelnr.: 47824904

Autorenporträt

Levi Roach is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: assembling consent in ninth- and tenth-century England
2. Assembly attendance
3. Meeting places and times of assemblies
4. Royal charters and assemblies
5. Legislation and consent: law making and assembly politics
6. The witan and the settlement of disputes
7. The 'further business' of the witan
8. Symbols in context: ritual and demonstration at assemblies
9. Ritual and reality: the problem of the sources
10. The role of the witan: celebration and persuasion
Appendix: meetings of the witan, 871-978.