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

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

Works on Anglo-Saxon kingship often take as their starting point the line from Beowulf: ‘that was a good king’. This monograph, however, explores what it me

This is the first major study of the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records, examining the role of language choice in the do

From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified