The relationship between Anglo-Saxon kingship, law, and the functioning of power is explored via a number of different angles. The essays collected here focus o

This is an engaging study of how kingship and royal government operated in the late Anglo-Saxon period.

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging

Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England explores English legal culture and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the essentially pre-Christian law

Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence. King Edgar ruled England for a short but signific