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Kingship and consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871-978 : assemblies and the state in the early Middle Ages / Levi Roach.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thoughtPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 301 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107598355
  • 1107598354
  • 9781461953340
  • 1461953340
  • 9781139567756
  • 1139567756
  • 1306212189
  • 9781306212182
  • 1139892614
  • 9781139892612
  • 1107702941
  • 9781107702943
  • 1316648524
  • 9781316648520
  • 1107703808
  • 9781107703803
  • 1107690781
  • 9781107690783
  • 1107667593
  • 9781107667594
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kingship and consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871-978DDC classification:
  • 320.942/09021 23
LOC classification:
  • JN513 .R63 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Assembling consent in ninth- and tenth-century England -- Assembly attendance -- Meeting places and times of assemblies -- Royal charters and assemblies -- Legislation and consent : Law making and assembly politics -- Symbols in context: Ritual and demonstration at assemblies -- The witan and the settlement of disputes -- The "further business" of the witan -- Ritual and reality: the problem of the sources -- The role of the witan: celebration and persuasion.
Summary: This is an engaging new study of how kingship and royal government operated in the late Anglo-Saxon period.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Assembling consent in ninth- and tenth-century England -- Assembly attendance -- Meeting places and times of assemblies -- Royal charters and assemblies -- Legislation and consent : Law making and assembly politics -- Symbols in context: Ritual and demonstration at assemblies -- The witan and the settlement of disputes -- The "further business" of the witan -- Ritual and reality: the problem of the sources -- The role of the witan: celebration and persuasion.

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

English.

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