03355nam 2200673 450 991045289470332120200520144314.01-4426-6444-410.3138/9781442664449(CKB)2550000001040203(EBL)3284246(SSID)ssj0001150987(PQKBManifestationID)12464241(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001150987(PQKBWorkID)11105461(PQKB)10901034(CEL)444853(OCoLC)826855603(CaBNVSL)slc00231588(MiAaPQ)EBC3284246(MiAaPQ)EBC4669621(DE-B1597)482974(OCoLC)1004872543(DE-B1597)9781442664449(Au-PeEL)EBL4669621(CaPaEBR)ebr11256145(EXLCZ)99255000000104020320160920h20122012 uy 0engur|n|---|uu|utxtccrLand and book literature and land tenure in Anglo-Saxon England /Scott Thompson SmithToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2012.©20121 online resource (302 p.)Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series ;131-4426-4486-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --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 IndexIn 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 could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical - such as political dominion, salvation, sanctity, status, and social and spiritual obligations. Land and Book places a variety of texts - including charters, dispute records, heroic poetry, homilies, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - 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. Through this, Smith provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of literary, legal, and historical interests.Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ;13.Land tenure in literatureLand tenureEnglandHistoryTo 1500Land tenureLaw and legislationEnglandHistoryElectronic books.Land tenure in literature.Land tenureHistoryLand tenureLaw and legislationHistory.829/.093553Smith Scott Thompson899136MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452894703321Land and book2008792UNINA