Land and Book : : Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England / / Scott Thompson Smith.
In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons...
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Smith, Scott Thompson, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Land and Book : Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England / Scott Thompson Smith. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2012 1 online resource (304 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Terms of Possession -- 1. The Most Solemn Instrument -- 2. Storied Land -- 3. Tenure in Translation -- 4. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Dynastic Landbook -- 5. Poetic Possession -- Conclusion: The Question of Limits -- Bibliography -- Index of Charters Cited -- General Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical - such as political dominion, salvation, sanctity, status, and social and spiritual obligations.Land and Book places a variety of texts - including charters, dispute records, heroic poetry, homilies, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English. Through this, Smith provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of literary, legal, and historical interests. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) English literature Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism. Land tenure in literature. Land tenure Law and legislation England History. Land tenure England History To 1500. DISCOUNT-B. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh print 9781442644861 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442664449 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442664449 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442664449.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Terms of Possession -- 1. The Most Solemn Instrument -- 2. Storied Land -- 3. Tenure in Translation -- 4. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Dynastic Landbook -- 5. Poetic Possession -- Conclusion: The Question of Limits -- Bibliography -- Index of Charters Cited -- General Index |
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