Kingship and government in pre-conquest England c. 500-1066

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Kingship and government in pre-conquest England c. 500-1066

Ann Williams

(British history in perspective)

Macmillan , St. Martin's, 1999

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Bibliograhy: p. 222-230

Includes index

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Description

This book is a study of the exercise of royal authority before the Norman Conquest. Six centuries separate the 'adventus Saxonum' from the battle of Hastings: during those long years, the English kings changed from warlords, who exacted submission by force, into law-givers to whom obedience was a moral duty. In the process, they created many of the administrative institutes which continued to serve their successors. They also created England: the united kingdom of the English people.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Abbreviations.- Chronology.- Genealogical Tables.- Through a Glass Darkly: The Origins of English Kingship.- The Time of the Warlords.- The Shadow of Mercia.- Strategies of Power.- All the King's Men.- Out of the North: The Impact of the Vikings.- The Making of England.- Rule and Conflict, 978-1066.- The Ill-Counselled King.- The Danish Conquest.- Authority and Ambition, 1042-66.- Index.

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