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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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