Law and order in Anglo-Saxon England Lambert, T. B. (Thomas Benedict) 1981- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2017 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xvi, 390 pages) Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England' explores English legal culture and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the essentially pre-Christian laws enshrined in writing by King Aethelberht of Kent in c. 600 and working forward to the Norman Conquest of 1066. It attempts to escape the traditional retrospective assumptions of legal history, focused on the late twelfth-century Common Law, and to establish a new interpretative framework for the subject, more sensitive to contemporary cultural assumptions and practical realities. The focus of the volume is on the maintenance of order: what constituted good order; what forms of wrongdoing were threatening to it; what roles kings, lords, communities, and individuals were expected to play in maintaining it; and how that worked in practice. Its core argument is that the Anglo-Saxons had a coherent, stable, and enduring legal order that lacks modern analogies: it was neither state-like nor stateless, and needs to be understood on its own terms rather than as a variant or hybrid of these models. 00Tom Lambert elucidates a distinctively early medieval understanding of the tension between the interests of individuals and communities, and a vision of how that tension ought to be managed that, strikingly, treats strongly libertarian and communitarian features as complementary. Potentially violent, honour-focused feuding was an integral aspect of legitimate legal practice throughout the period, but so too was fearsome punishment for forms of wrongdoing judged socially threatening. Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England charts the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice, presenting a picture of increasingly ambitious and effective royal legal innovation that relied more on the cooperation of local communal assemblies than kings' sparse and patchy network of administrative officials. Introduction : Approaching law and order in the early Middle Ages -- I. Foundations of the Anglo-Saxon legal order -- Law before Æthelberht -- Kingship. legislation, and punishment in the seventh century -- Royal administration and legal practice to the early tenth century -- II. Order and 'the state' in late Anglo-Saxon England -- Substantive legal change -- Ideals of kingship and order -- Local legal practice and royal control -- Rights and revenues -- Conclusion : continuity, change and the Norman Conquest. Tom Lambert. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk-en Law, Anglo-Saxon Justice, Administration of England History To 1500 Anglo-Saxons Kings and rulers Droit anglo-saxon Anglo-Saxons Rois et souverains LAW Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice HISTORY Europe Great Britain General Anglo-Saxons Kings and rulers Justice, Administration of Law, Anglo-Saxon England To 1500 fast KD554 .L36 2017 349.4209/021 Law and order in Anglo-Saxon England Lambert, Tom. Corby : Oxford University Press 2017 (OCoLC)955313129 9780191089596 0191089591 9780191089602 0191089605 9780191828638 0191828637 9780198786313 019878631X http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/9840 N$T 170227 20260319163522.8 in00005714412 eng