Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon . Owen-Crocker, Schneider<|

Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon EnglandAuthor(s): Gale R Owen-Crocker, Brian W. Schneider, Alaric Trousdale, Alexander R. Rumble, Andrew Rabin, Ann Williams, Barbara Yorke, Carole Hough, Ryan Lavelle, Simon Keynes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781843838777, 978-1843838777\nSynopsis\nThe relationship between Anglo-Saxon kingship, law, and the functioning of power is explored via a number of different angles.\n\nThe essays collected here focus on how Anglo-Saxon royal authority was expressed and disseminated, through laws, delegation, relationships between monarch and Church, and between monarchs at times of multiple kingships and changing power ratios. Specific topics include the importance of kings in consolidating the English \""nation\""; the development of witnesses as agents of the king's authority; the posthumous power of monarchs; how ceremonial occasions wereused for propaganda reinfore