Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England

The only modern book-length account of Anglo-Saxon legal culture and practice, from the pre-Christian laws of Æthelberht of Kent (c. 600) up to the Norman conquest of 1066, charting the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice.

About the author

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.

Summary

The only modern book-length account of Anglo-Saxon legal culture and practice, from the pre-Christian laws of Æthelberht of Kent (c. 600) up to the Norman conquest of 1066, charting the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice.

Additional text

this book is an important contribution to the scholarship on Anglo-Saxon law and legal culture, one that deserves a place in bibliographies and classrooms, and will certainly have a place in my own.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Lambert, Tom (Fellow in History Lambert, Lambert Tom
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.02.2017
• EAN: 9780198786313
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878631-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; England, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Medieval History, Political structure & processes, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Legal History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Political structure and processes