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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811205703321

Autore

Smith Scott Thompson

Titolo

Land and book : literature and land tenure in Anglo-Saxon England / / Scott Thompson Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4426-6609-9

1-4426-6444-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series ; ; 13

Disciplina

829/.093553

Soggetti

Land tenure in literature

Land tenure - England - History - To 1500

Land tenure - Law and legislation - England - History

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Land and Book places a variety of texts in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English.