Tom Lambert (Fellow in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)

LAW & ORDER IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780198786313
• ISBN-10: 019878631X
• Artikelnr.: 47871285

Autorenporträt

Tom Lambert was born and grew up in York. He spent nearly a decade based at the University of Durham, as an undergraduate, postgraduate, and seminar tutor. Since gaining his doctorate in 2009, he has held a Past and Present Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London, and spent five very happy years teaching and researching in Oxford. Much of the work for Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England was carried out between 2012 and 2015, when he was the Bennett Boskey Fellow in History at Exeter College, Oxford. He is now a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Approaching Law and Order in the Early Middle Ages
PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON LEGAL ORDER
1: Law before Æthelberht
2: Kingship, Legislation, and Punishment in the Seventh Century
3: Royal Administration and Legal Practice to the Early Tenth Century
PART II: ORDER AND "THE STATE" IN LATE ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
4: Substantive Legal Change
5: Ideals of Kingship and Order
6: Local Legal Practice and Royal Control
7: Rights and Revenues
Conclusion: Continuity, Change, and the Norman Conquest
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