Law, Literature, and Social Regulation in Early Medieval England 9781783277605, 9781800109247, 9781800109254

Valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulatio

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Bonds of Secrecy illuminates the relationship between human experiences of secrecy and early medieval beliefs about divi

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This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of co

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Domesday Book contains the most comprehensive, varied and monumental legal material to survive from England before the r

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Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing

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Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing

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People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even

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For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentie

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Alien Albionchallenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class

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Banished investigates Puritan practices of social exclusion through the lens of seventeenth-century New England common l

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