Land and Book : Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England /

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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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Autor principal: Smith, Scott Thompson (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Temas:
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.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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