This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art, archaelogical remains and surviving buildings.The ...
This volume, the first of two comprising The Making of English Law, provides the first full-length account of the Old English law-codes for over eighty years, and the first that has ever been published in the English language. It is designed to be both an authoritative work of reference for scholars seeking enlightenment on particular legal ...
Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede's life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society. It is a collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church. It integrates the religious, ...
This fascinating and wide-ranging collection of essays examines lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in the Carolingian Empire from Charlemagne to Charles the Bald, and in England from Alfred to Edgar. It explores a diverse range of Latin and vernacular texts written by secular authors, informing contemporary debate about the ...
Patrick Wormald was a brilliant interpreter of the Early Middle Ages, whose teaching, writings and generous friendship inspired a generation of historians and students of politics, law, language, literature and religion to focus their attention upon the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks. Leading British, American and continental scholars - ...
The history of early medieval law is not, and cannot be, the same as the history of legislation. Law-codes and edicts in the post-Roman West were statements of law. But they were a better reflection of what kings and churchmen wished society to be than of what society experienced. Up to a point this is true of any legal system. But the situation ...
This volume, the first of two comprising The Making of English Law, provides the first full-length account of the Old English law-codes for over eighty years, and the first that has ever been published in the English language. It is designed to be both an authoritative work of reference for scholars seeking enlightenment on particular legal ...
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